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LXX Concordance for εἶπεν

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εἶπεν — 2519x G2036 εἶπον
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V-AAI-3S
Occurrences: 2519 times in 2271 verses
Speech: Verb
Parsing: Aorist Active Indicative
3rd Person Singular
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:3 - God said, "Let there be light." And there was light!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:6 - God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:11 - God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." It was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:14 - God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:20 - God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:24 - God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind." It was so.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, "Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:29 - Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:18 - The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - Then the man said, "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:3 - but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said, 'You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:9 - But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - The man replied, "I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:11 - And the LORD God said, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, "The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - So the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And the LORD God said, "Now that the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not be allowed to stretch out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the LORD did!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:6 - Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:8 - Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:9 - Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" And he replied, "I don't know! Am I my brother's guardian?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:10 - But the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:13 - Then Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is too great to endure!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:15 - But the LORD said to him, "All right then, if anyone kills Cain, Cain will be avenged seven times as much." Then the LORD put a special mark on Cain so that no one who found him would strike him down.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:3 - So the LORD said, "My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:7 - So the LORD said, "I will wipe humankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth - everything from humankind to animals, including creatures that move on the ground and birds of the air, for I regret that I have made them."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:13 - So God said to Noah, "I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:1 - The LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:15 - Then God spoke to Noah and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:21 - And the LORD smelled the soothing aroma and said to himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, even though the inclination of their minds is evil from childhood on. I will never again destroy everything that lives, as I have just done.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:8 - God said to Noah and his sons,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:12 - And God said, "This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:17 - So God said to Noah, "This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:25 - So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:26 - He also said, "Worthy of praise is the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - Then they said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." (They had brick instead of stone and tar instead of mortar.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And the LORD said, "If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:1 - Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father's household to the land that I will show you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - He blessed Abram, saying, "Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:21 - Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people and take the possessions for yourself."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I raise my hand to the LORD, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:3 - Abram added, "Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - The LORD took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars - if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:7 - The LORD said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:8 - But Abram said, "O sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:9 - The LORD said to him, "Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai said to Abram, "Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, have sexual relations with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her." Abram did what Sarai told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - Then Sarai said to Abram, "You have brought this wrong on me! I allowed my servant to have sexual relations with you, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the LORD judge between you and me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - Abram said to Sarai, "Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best." Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - He said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She replied, "I'm running away from my mistress, Sarai."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:9 - Then the LORD's angel said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - I will greatly multiply your descendants," the LORD's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:11 - Then the LORD's angel said to her, "You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her, "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen one who sees me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:1 - When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:18 - Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:3 - He said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, "Quick! Take three measures of fine flour, knead it, and make bread."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - Then they asked him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" He replied, "There, in the tent."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - One of them said, "I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!" (Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Will I really have a child when I am old?'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:15 - Then Sarah lied, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. But the LORD said, "No! You did laugh."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:17 - Then the LORD said, "Should I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - So the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Abraham approached and said, "Will you sweep away the godly along with the wicked?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - So the LORD replied, "If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:27 - Then Abraham asked, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if there are five less than the fifty godly people? Will you destroy the whole city because five are lacking?" He replied, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Abraham spoke to him again, "What if forty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it for the sake of the forty."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?" He replied, "I will not do it if I find thirty there."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, "Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Finally Abraham said, "May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He replied, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:2 - He said, "Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant's house. Stay the night and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning." "No," they replied, "we'll spend the night in the town square."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:7 - He said, "No, my brothers! Don't act so wickedly!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:18 - But Lot said to them, "No, please, Lord!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - "Very well," he replied, "I will grant this request too and will not overthrow the town you mentioned.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:34 - So in the morning the older daughter said to the younger, "Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let's make him drunk again tonight. Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Abraham said about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else's wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, "Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - Did Abraham not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then in the dream God replied to him, "Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - Then Abimelech asked Abraham, "What prompted you to do this thing?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - Then Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your 'brother.' This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:1 - The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:6 - Sarah said, "God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - She went on to say, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:10 - So she said to Abraham, "Banish that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God said to Abraham, "Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, "I refuse to watch the child die." So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - But God heard the boy's voice. The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, "What is the matter, Hagar? Don't be afraid, for God has heard the boy's voice right where he is crying.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you in all that you do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:24 - Abraham said, "I swear to do this."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:26 - "I do not know who has done this thing," Abimelech replied. "Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:29 - Abimelech asked Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" Abraham replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - God said, "Take your son - your only son, whom you love, Isaac - and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:3 - Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:5 - So he said to his servants, "You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:7 - Isaac said to his father Abraham, "My father?" "What is it, my son?" he replied. "Here is the fire and the wood," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:8 - "God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:11 - But the LORD's angel called to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:12 - "Do not harm the boy!" the angel said. "Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:3 - Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife and said to the sons of Heth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite replied to Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth - before all who entered the gate of his city -
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and said to Ephron in their hearing, "Hear me, if you will. I pay to you the price of the field. Take it from me so that I may bury my dead there."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, "Put your hand under my thigh
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, "What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - "Be careful never to take my son back there!" Abraham told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - He prayed, "O LORD, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - "Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - "Whose daughter are you?" he asked. "Tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:24 - She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - We have plenty of straw and feed," she added, "and room for you to spend the night."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying "Praised be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The LORD has led me to the house of my master's relatives!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - Laban said to him, "Come, you who are blessed by the LORD! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - When food was served, he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I want to say." "Tell us," Laban said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:34 - "I am the servant of Abraham," he began.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I'll give your camels water too.' So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, "Don't detain me - the LORD has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" She replied, "I want to go."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - and asked Abraham's servant, "Who is that man walking in the field toward us?" "That is my master," the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:22 - But the children struggled inside her, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, I'm not so sure I want to be pregnant!" So she asked the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - and the LORD said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples will be separated from within you. One people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:30 - So Esau said to Jacob, "Feed me some of the red stuff - yes, this red stuff - because I'm starving!" (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:31 - But Jacob replied, "First sell me your birthright."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:32 - "Look," said Esau, "I'm about to die! What use is the birthright to me?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:33 - But Jacob said, "Swear an oath to me now." So Esau swore an oath to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:2 - The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:7 - When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:9 - So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought someone might kill me to get her."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:16 - Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - The LORD appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:27 - Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 - When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, "My son!" "Here I am!" Esau replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - Isaac said, "Since I am so old, I could die at any time.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:6 - Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "Look, I overheard your father tell your brother Esau,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:11 - "But Esau my brother is a hairy man," Jacob protested to his mother Rebekah, "and I have smooth skin!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:13 - So his mother told him, "Any curse against you will fall on me, my son! Just obey me! Go and get them for me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:18 - He went to his father and said, "My father!" Isaac replied, "Here I am. Which are you, my son?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:19 - Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I've done as you told me. Now sit up and eat some of my wild game so that you can bless me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - But Isaac asked his son, "How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?" "Because the LORD your God brought it to me," he replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come closer so I can touch you, my son, and know for certain if you really are my son Esau."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob went over to his father Isaac, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's, but the hands are Esau's."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:24 - Then he asked, "Are you really my son Esau?" "I am," Jacob replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:25 - Isaac said, "Bring some of the wild game for me to eat, my son. Then I will bless you." So Jacob brought it to him, and he ate it. He also brought him wine, and Isaac drank.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:26 - Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come here and kiss me, my son."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So Jacob went over and kissed him. When Isaac caught the scent of his clothing, he blessed him, saying, "Yes, my son smells like the scent of an open field which the LORD has blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:31 - He also prepared some tasty food and brought it to his father. Esau said to him, "My father, get up and eat some of your son's wild game. Then you can bless me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:32 - His father Isaac asked, "Who are you?" "I am your firstborn son," he replied, "Esau!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:33 - Isaac began to shake violently and asked, "Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:34 - When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:35 - But Isaac replied, "Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:36 - Esau exclaimed, "'Jacob' is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!" Then he asked, "Have you not kept back a blessing for me?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:37 - Isaac replied to Esau, "Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - Esau said to his father, "Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!" Then Esau wept loudly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:39 - So his father Isaac said to him, "Indeed, your home will be away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of the sky above.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, "The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - When Rebekah heard what her older son Esau had said, she quickly summoned her younger son Jacob and told him, "Look, your brother Esau is planning to get revenge by killing you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:46 - Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am deeply depressed because of these daughters of Heth. If Jacob were to marry one of these daughters of Heth who live in this land, I would want to die!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:13 - and the LORD stood at its top. He said, "I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:16 - Then Jacob woke up and thought, "Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:17 - He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:4 - Jacob asked them, "My brothers, where are you from?" They replied, "We're from Haran."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - So he said to them, "Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?" "We know him," they said.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:6 - "Is he well?" Jacob asked. They replied, "He is well. Now look, here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - Then Jacob said, "Since it is still the middle of the day, it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. You should water the sheep and then go and let them graze some more."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." So Jacob stayed with him for a month.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Then Laban said to Jacob, "Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Since Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel, he said, "I'll serve you seven years in exchange for your younger daughter Rachel."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:19 - Laban replied, "I'd rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Finally Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What in the world have you done to me! Didn't I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - "It is not our custom here," Laban replied, "to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:33 - She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "Because the LORD heard that I was unloved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:34 - She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "Now this time my husband will show me affection, because I have given birth to three sons for him." That is why he was named Levi.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 - She became pregnant again and had another son. She said, "This time I will praise the LORD." That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:1 - When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:2 - Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:3 - She replied, "Here is my servant Bilhah! Have sexual relations with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:6 - Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son." That is why she named him Dan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, "I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won." So she named him Naphtali.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:11 - Leah said, "How fortunate!" So she named him Gad.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:13 - Leah said, "How happy I am, for women will call me happy!" So she named him Asher.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:14 - At the time of the wheat harvest Reuben went out and found some mandrake plants in a field and brought them to his mother Leah. Rachel said to Leah, "Give me some of your son's mandrakes."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:15 - But Leah replied, "Wasn't it enough that you've taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes too?" "All right," Rachel said, "he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - When Jacob came in from the fields that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, "You must sleep with me because I have paid for your services with my son's mandrakes." So he had marital relations with her that night.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:18 - Then Leah said, "God has granted me a reward because I gave my servant to my husband as a wife." So she named him Issachar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:20 - Then Leah said, "God has given me a good gift. Now my husband will honor me because I have given him six sons." So she named him Zebulun.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:23 - She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "God has taken away my shame."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:29 - "You know how I have worked for you," Jacob replied, "and how well your livestock have fared under my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:31 - So Laban asked, "What should I give you?" "You don't need to give me a thing," Jacob replied, "but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - "Agreed!" said Laban, "It will be as you say."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:3 - The LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your relatives. I will be with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:5 - There he said to them, "I can tell that your father's attitude toward me has changed, but the God of my father has been with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, "Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - "What have you done?" Laban demanded of Jacob. "You've deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:29 - I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, 'Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - "I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:32 - Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! In the presence of our relatives identify whatever is yours and take it." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period." So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. "What did I do wrong?" he demanded of Laban. "What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:44 - So now, come, let's make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Then he said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today." That is why it was called Galeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:49 - It was also called Mizpah because he said, "May the LORD watch between us when we are out of sight of one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:2 - When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - "If Esau attacks one camp," he thought, "then the other camp will be able to escape."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:9 - Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you said to me, 'Return to your land and to your relatives and I will make you prosper.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:16 - He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants, "Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:20 - You must also say, 'In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.'" Jacob thought, "I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:26 - Then the man said, "Let me go, for the dawn is breaking." "I will not let you go," Jacob replied, "unless you bless me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:27 - The man asked him, "What is your name?" He answered, "Jacob."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - "No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:29 - Then Jacob asked, "Please tell me your name." "Why do you ask my name?" the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he asked, "Who are these people with you?" Jacob replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - Esau then asked, "What did you intend by sending all these herds to meet me?" Jacob replied, "To find favor in your sight, my lord."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - But Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - "No, please take them," Jacob said. "If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:12 - Then Esau said, "Let's be on our way! I will go in front of you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - So Esau said, "Let me leave some of my men with you." "Why do that?" Jacob replied. "My lord has already been kind enough to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:4 - Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Acquire this young girl as my wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:11 - Then Shechem said to Dinah's father and brothers, "Let me find favor in your sight, and whatever you require of me I'll give.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:30 - Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought ruin on me by making me a foul odor among the inhabitants of the land - among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number; they will join forces against me and attack me, and both I and my family will be destroyed!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:1 - Then God said to Jacob, "Go up at once to Bethel and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name." So God named him Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - Then God said to him, "I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation - even a company of nations - will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:17 - When her labor was at its hardest, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for you are having another son."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 - He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had:
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. "Look," he said. "I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - When he told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him, saying, "What is this dream that you had? Will I, your mother, and your brothers really come and bow down to you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - Israel said to Joseph, "Your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I will send you to them." "I'm ready," Joseph replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So Jacob said to him, "Go now and check on the welfare of your brothers and of the flocks, and bring me word." So Jacob sent him from the valley of Hebron.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:16 - He replied, "I'm looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are grazing their flocks."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:17 - The man said, "They left this area, for I heard them say, 'Let's go to Dothan.'" So Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:21 - When Reuben heard this, he rescued Joseph from their hands, saying, "Let's not take his life!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:22 - Reuben continued, "Don't shed blood! Throw him into this cistern that is here in the wilderness, but don't lay a hand on him." (Reuben said this so he could rescue Joseph from them and take him back to his father.)
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - returned to his brothers, and said, "The boy isn't there! And I, where can I go?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:33 - He recognized it and exclaimed, "It is my son's tunic! A wild animal has eaten him! Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, "Have sexual relations with your brother's wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, "Live as a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up." For he thought, "I don't want him to die like his brothers." So Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:16 - He turned aside to her along the road and said, "Come on! I want to have sex with you." (He did not realize it was his daughter-in-law.) She asked, "What will you give me in exchange for having sex with you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:17 - He replied, "I'll send you a young goat from the flock." She asked, "Will you give me a pledge until you send it?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:18 - He said, "What pledge should I give you?" She replied, "Your seal, your cord, and the staff that's in your hand." So he gave them to her and had sex with her. She became pregnant by him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he returned to Judah and said, "I couldn't find her. Moreover, the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23 - Judah said, "Let her keep the things for herself. Otherwise we will appear to be dishonest. I did indeed send this young goat, but you couldn't find her."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - After three months Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution, and as a result she has become pregnant." Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:25 - While they were bringing her out, she sent word to her father-in-law: "I am pregnant by the man to whom these belong." Then she said, "Identify the one to whom the seal, cord, and staff belong."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Judah recognized them and said, "She is more upright than I am, because I wouldn't give her to Shelah my son." He did not have sexual relations with her again.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:29 - But then he drew back his hand, and his brother came out before him. She said, "How you have broken out of the womb!" So he was named Perez.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:7 - Soon after these things, his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Have sex with me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:8 - But he refused, saying to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:14 - she called for her household servants and said to them, "See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to have sex with me, but I screamed loudly.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - They told him, "We both had dreams, but there is no one to interpret them." Joseph responded, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 - So the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph: "In my dream, there was a vine in front of me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:12 - "This is its meaning," Joseph said to him. "The three branches represent three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:18 - Joseph replied, "This is its meaning: The three baskets represent three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:16 - Joseph replied to Pharaoh, "It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:38 - So Pharaoh asked his officials, "Can we find a man like Joseph, one in whom the Spirit of God is present?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:39 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has enabled you to know all this, there is no one as wise and discerning as you are!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:41 - "See here," Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:44 - Pharaoh also said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your permission no one will move his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:54 - Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:55 - When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, "Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:1 - When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, "Why are you looking at each other?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:4 - But Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, "What if some accident happens to him?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:7 - When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly. He asked, "Where do you come from?" They answered, "From the land of Canaan, to buy grain for food."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, "You are spies; you have come to see if our land is vulnerable!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:12 - "No," he insisted, "but you have come to see if our land is vulnerable."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:14 - But Joseph told them, "It is just as I said to you: You are spies!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:18 - On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do as I say and you will live, for I fear God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:21 - They said to one other, "Surely we're being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - Reuben said to them, "Didn't I say to you, 'Don't sin against the boy,' but you wouldn't listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:24 - He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:28 - He said to his brothers, "My money was returned! Here it is in my sack!" They were dismayed; they turned trembling one to another and said, "What in the world has God done to us?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - "Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:36 - Their father Jacob said to them, "You are making me childless! Joseph is gone. Simeon is gone. And now you want to take Benjamin! Everything is against me."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:37 - Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:38 - But Jacob replied, "My son will not go down there with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If an accident happens to him on the journey you have to make, then you will bring down my gray hair in sorrow to the grave."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:2 - When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, "Return, buy us a little more food."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 - But Judah said to him, "The man solemnly warned us, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:5 - But if you will not send him, we won't go down there because the man said to us, 'You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - Israel said, "Why did you bring this trouble on me by telling the man you had one more brother?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me and we will go immediately. Then we will live and not die - we and you and our little ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man - a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:16 - When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, "Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:17 - The man did just as Joseph said; he brought the men into Joseph's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:23 - "Everything is fine," the man in charge of Joseph's household told them. "Don't be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I had your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:27 - He asked them how they were doing. Then he said, "Is your aging father well, the one you spoke about? Is he still alive?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:28 - "Your servant our father is well," they replied. "He is still alive." They bowed down in humility.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - When Joseph looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, he said, "Is this your youngest brother, whom you told me about?" Then he said, "May God be gracious to you, my son."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:31 - Then he washed his face and came out. With composure he said, "Set out the food."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - Then put my cup - the silver cup - in the mouth of the youngest one's sack, along with the money for his grain." He did as Joseph instructed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, "Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:6 - When the man overtook them, he spoke these words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:10 - He replied, "You have suggested your own punishment! The one who has it will become my slave, but the rest of you will go free."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:15 - Joseph said to them, "What did you think you were doing? Don't you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - Judah replied, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? How can we clear ourselves? God has exposed the sin of your servants! We are now my lord's slaves, we and the one in whose possession the cup was found."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:17 - But Joseph said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found will become my slave, but the rest of you may go back to your father in peace."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah approached him and said, "My lord, please allow your servant to speak a word with you. Please do not get angry with your servant, for you are just like Pharaoh.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:25 - "Then our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little food.'
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:27 - "Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife gave me two sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:1 - Joseph was no longer able to control himself before all his attendants, so he cried out, "Make everyone go out from my presence!" No one remained with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Joseph said to his brothers, "Come closer to me," so they came near. Then he said, "I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:17 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:24 - Then he sent his brothers on their way and they left. He said to them, "As you travel don't be overcome with fear."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:27 - But when they related to him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, their father Jacob's spirit revived.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - Then Israel said, "Enough! My son Joseph is still alive! I will go and see him before I die."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He replied, "Here I am!"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:31 - Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:3 - Pharaoh said to Joseph's brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:5 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:8 - Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How long have you lived?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:9 - Jacob said to Pharaoh, "All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:16 - Then Joseph said, "If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:23 - Joseph said to the people, "Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:30 - but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." Joseph said, "I will do as you say."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - Jacob said, "Swear to me that you will do so." So Joseph gave him his word. Then Israel bowed down at the head of his bed.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:3 - Jacob said to Joseph, "The sovereign God appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - When Israel saw Joseph's sons, he asked, "Who are these?"
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:9 - Joseph said to his father, "They are the sons God has given me in this place." His father said, "Bring them to me so I may bless them."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - Israel said to Joseph, "I never expected to see you again, but now God has allowed me to see your children too."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:15 - Then he blessed Joseph and said, "May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked - the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He too will become a nation and he too will become great. In spite of this, his younger brother will be even greater and his descendants will become a multitude of nations."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Israel said to Joseph, "I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:1 - Jacob called for his sons and said, "Gather together so I can tell you what will happen to you in the future.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:29 - Then he instructed them, "I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:6 - So Pharaoh said, "Go and bury your father, just as he made you swear to do."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:19 - But Joseph answered them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:21 - So now, don't be afraid. I will provide for you and your little children." Then he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die. But God will surely come to you and lead you up from this land to the land he swore on oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - He said to his people, "Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:16 - "When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery: If it is a son, kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them, "Why have you done this and let the boys live?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Yes, do so." So the young girl went and got the child's mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:14 - The man replied, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, thinking, "Surely what I did has become known."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:18 - So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, "Why have you come home so early today?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:20 - He said to his daughters, "So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:3 - So Moses thought, "I will turn aside to see this amazing sight. Why does the bush not burn up?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:4 - When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to look, God called to him from within the bush and said, "Moses, Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - God said, "Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:6 - He added, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Then Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:7 - The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:11 - Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:12 - He replied, "Surely I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you bring the people out of Egypt, you and they will serve God on this mountain."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:13 - Moses said to God, "If I go to the Israelites and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' - what should I say to them?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:14 - God said to Moses, "I AM that I AM." And he said, "You must say this to the Israelites, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:15 - God also said to Moses, "You must say this to the Israelites, 'The LORD - the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob - has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial from generation to generation.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:1 - Moses answered again, "And if they do not believe me or pay attention to me, but say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you'?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:2 - The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" He said, "A staff."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - The LORD said, "Throw it to the ground." So he threw it to the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses ran from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:4 - But the LORD said to Moses, "Put out your hand and grab it by the tail" - so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand -
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:6 - The LORD also said to him, "Put your hand into your robe." So he put his hand into his robe, and when he brought it out - there was his hand, leprous like snow!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:7 - He said, "Put your hand back into your robe." So he put his hand back into his robe, and when he brought it out from his robe - there it was, restored like the rest of his skin!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:10 - Then Moses said to the LORD, "O my Lord, I am not an eloquent man, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant, for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:11 - The LORD said to him, "Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:13 - But Moses said, "O my Lord, please send anyone else whom you wish to send!"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - Then the LORD became angry with Moses, and he said, "What about your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he can speak very well. Moreover, he is coming to meet you, and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:18 - So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:19 - The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go back to Egypt, because all the men who were seeking your life are dead."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:21 - The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. But I will harden his heart and he will not let the people go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:25 - But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses' feet, and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:26 - So the LORD let him alone. (At that time she said, "A bridegroom of blood," referring to the circumcision.)
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aaron, "Go to the wilderness to meet Moses. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:2 - But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should obey him by releasing Israel? I do not know the LORD, and I will not release Israel!"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:4 - The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why do you cause the people to refrain from their work? Return to your labor!"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:5 - Pharaoh was thinking, "The people of the land are now many, and you are giving them rest from their labor."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:17 - But Pharaoh replied, "You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:22 - Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Lord, why have you caused trouble for this people? Why did you ever send me?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for compelled by my strong hand he will release them, and by my strong hand he will drive them out of his land."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:2 - God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:10 - Then the LORD said to Moses,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:13 - The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge for the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:26 - It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, "Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:30 - But Moses said before the LORD, "Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:1 - So the LORD said to Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:8 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:14 - The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hard; he refuses to release the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over Egypt's waters - over their rivers, over their canals, over their ponds, and over all their reservoirs - so that it becomes blood.' There will be blood everywhere in the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:22 - But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts, and so Pharaoh's heart remained hard, and he refused to listen to Moses and Aaron - just as the LORD had predicted.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:1 - (7:26) Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD: "Release my people in order that they may serve me!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - The LORD spoke to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:8 - Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to the LORD that he may take the frogs away from me and my people, and I will release the people that they may sacrifice to the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:9 - Moses said to Pharaoh, "You may have the honor over me - when shall I pray for you, your servants, and your people, for the frogs to be removed from you and your houses, so that they will be left only in the Nile?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:10 - He said, "Tomorrow." And Moses said, "It will be as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:13 - The LORD did as Moses asked - the frogs died out of the houses, the villages, and the fields.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:16 - The LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your staff and strike the dust of the ground, and it will become gnats throughout all the land of Egypt.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:20 - The LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning and position yourself before Pharaoh as he goes out to the water, and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Release my people that they may serve me!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:26 - But Moses said, "That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:27 - We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the LORD our God, just as he is telling us."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:28 - Pharaoh said, "I will release you so that you may sacrifice to the LORD your God in the desert. Only you must not go very far. Do pray for me."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:29 - Moses said, "I am going to go out from you and pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - and the LORD did as Moses asked - he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people. Not one remained!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people that they may serve me!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:8 - Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:13 - The LORD said to Moses, "Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: "Release my people so that they may serve me!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:22 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward the sky that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on people and on animals, and on everything that grows in the field in the land of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:27 - So Pharaoh sent and summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time! The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are guilty.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - Moses said to him, "When I leave the city I will spread my hands to the LORD, the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:1 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order to display these signs of mine before him,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:8 - So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. Exactly who is going with you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - He said to them, "The LORD will need to be with you if I release you and your dependents! Watch out! Trouble is right in front of you!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up over the land of Egypt and eat everything that grows in the ground, everything that the hail has left."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward heaven so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness so thick it can be felt."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:25 - But Moses said, "Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - The LORD said to Moses, "I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt; after that he will release you from this place. When he releases you, he will drive you out completely from this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:4 - Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, "Go and select for yourselves a lamb or young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animals.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the LORD as you have requested!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may share in eating it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:3 - Moses said to the people, "Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the place where you were enslaved, for the LORD brought you out of there with a mighty hand - and no bread made with yeast may be eaten.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:17 - When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:11 - and they said to Moses, "Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the desert? What in the world have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:13 - Moses said to the people, "Do not fear! Stand firm and see the salvation of the LORD that he will provide for you today; for the Egyptians that you see today you will never, ever see again.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:15 - The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:26 - The LORD said to Moses, "Extend your hand toward the sea, so that the waters may flow back on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen!"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:9 - The enemy said, 'I will chase, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:26 - He said, "If you will diligently obey the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and pay attention to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, then all the diseases that I brought on the Egyptians I will not bring on you, for I, the LORD, am your healer."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:4 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people will go out and gather the amount for each day, so that I may test them. Will they walk in my law or not?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:6 - Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening you will know that the LORD has brought you out of the land of Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:8 - Moses said, "You will know this when the LORD gives you meat to eat in the evening and bread in the morning to satisfy you, because the LORD has heard your murmurings that you are murmuring against him. As for us, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:9 - Then Moses said to Aaron, "Tell the whole community of the Israelites, 'Come before the LORD, because he has heard your murmurings.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:15 - When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, "It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:19 - Moses said to them, "No one is to keep any of it until morning."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:23 - He said to them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:25 - Moses said, "Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the area.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:28 - So the LORD said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:32 - Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Fill an omer with it to be kept for generations to come, so that they may see the food I fed you in the desert when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:33 - Moses said to Aaron, "Take a jar and put in it an omer full of manna, and place it before the LORD to be kept for generations to come."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:2 - So the people contended with Moses, and they said, "Give us water to drink!" Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:5 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go over before the people; take with you some of the elders of Israel and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile and go.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:9 - So Moses said to Joshua, "Choose some of our men and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:10 - So Joshua fought against Amalek just as Moses had instructed him;and Moses and Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:14 - The LORD said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in Joshua's hearing; for I will surely wipe out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:10 - Jethro said, "Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians' control!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:17 - Moses' father-in-law said to him, "What you are doing is not good!
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:24 - Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:8 - and all the people answered together, "All that the LORD has commanded we will do!" So Moses brought the words of the people back to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:9 - The LORD said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you and so that they will always believe in you." And Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:10 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:15 - He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:21 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the LORD to look, and many of them perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:23 - Moses said to the LORD, "The people are not able to come up to Mount Sinai, because you solemnly warned us, 'Set boundaries for the mountain and set it apart.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:24 - The LORD said to him, "Go, get down, and come up, and Aaron with you, but do not let the priests and the people force their way through to come up to the LORD, lest he break through against them."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:25 - So Moses went down to the people and spoke to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:22 - The LORD said to Moses: "Thus you will tell the Israelites: 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken with you from heaven.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:1 - But to Moses the LORD said, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:8 - So Moses took the blood and splashed it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:34 - The LORD said to Moses: "Take spices, gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense of equal amounts
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - He accepted the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf. Then they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:11 - But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God and said, "O LORD, why does your anger burn against your people, whom you have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:14 - Then the LORD relented over the evil that he had said he would do to his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:21 - Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:22 - Aaron said, "Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:26 - So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, "Whoever is for the LORD, come to me." All the Levites gathered around him,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:29 - Moses said, "You have been consecrated today for the LORD, for each of you was against his son or against his brother, so he has given a blessing to you today."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 - The next day Moses said to the people, "You have committed a very serious sin, but now I will go up to the LORD - perhaps I can make atonement on behalf of your sin."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:31 - So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, this people has committed a very serious sin, and they have made for themselves gods of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:33 - The LORD said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me - that person I will wipe out of my book.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:1 - The LORD said to Moses, "Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - For the LORD had said to Moses, "Tell the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I went up among you for a moment, I might destroy you. Now take off your ornaments, that I may know what I should do to you.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:12 - Moses said to the LORD, "See, you have been saying to me, 'Bring this people up,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. But you said, 'I know you by name, and also you have found favor in my sight.'
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:17 - The LORD said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have requested, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:19 - And the LORD said, "I will make all my goodness pass before your face, and I will proclaim the LORD by name before you; I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, I will show mercy to whom I will show mercy."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:21 - The LORD said, "Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moses, "Cut out two tablets of stone like the first, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you smashed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:9 - and said, "If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let my Lord go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - He said, "See, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation. All the people among whom you live will see the work of the LORD, for it is a fearful thing that I am doing with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:27 - The LORD said to Moses, "Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:1 - Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them, "These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:4 - Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites, "This is the word that the LORD has commanded:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - Moses said to the Israelites, "See, the LORD has chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:5 - Then Moses said to the congregation: "This is what the LORD has commanded to be done."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:31 - Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and there you are to eat it and the bread which is in the ordination offering basket, just as I have commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons are to eat it,'
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:2 - and said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a bull calf for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both flawless, and present them before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:6 - Then Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded you to do so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:7 - Moses then said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and make your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement on behalf of yourself and on behalf of the people; and also make the people's offering and make atonement on behalf of them just as the LORD has commanded."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:3 - Moses then said to Aaron, "This is what the LORD spoke: 'Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.'" So Aaron kept silent.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:4 - Moses then called to Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said to them, "Come near, carry your brothers away from the front of the sanctuary to a place outside the camp."
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:5 - So they came near and carried them away in their tunics to a place outside the camp just as Moses had spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, "Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the LORD has caused,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:12 - Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons, "Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the LORD and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - and the LORD said to Moses: "Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil-canopy in front of the atonement plate that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement plate.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:9 - "'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:1 - The LORD said to Moses: "Say to the priests, the sons of Aaron - say to them, 'For a dead person no priest is to defile himself among his people,
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Number all the firstborn males of the Israelites from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:4 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:11 - For the LORD said to Moses, "They must present their offering, one leader for each day, for the dedication of the altar."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:8 - So Moses said to them, "Remain here and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are journeying to the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:30 - But Hobab said to him, "I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - Moses said, "Do not leave us, because you know places for us to camp in the wilderness, and you could be our guide.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:35 - And when the ark traveled, Moses would say, "Rise up, O LORD! May your enemies be scattered, and may those who hate you flee before you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - And when it came to rest he would say, "Return, O LORD, to the many thousands of Israel!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - And Moses said to the LORD, "Why have you afflicted your servant? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of this entire people on me?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - The LORD said to Moses, "Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know are elders of the people and officials over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting; let them take their position there with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:21 - Moses said, "The people around me are 600,000 on foot; but you say, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat for a whole month.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - And the LORD said to Moses, "Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you will see whether my word to you will come true or not!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:27 - And a young man ran and told Moses, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:28 - Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his choice young men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:29 - Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:4 - The LORD spoke immediately to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam: "The three of you come to the tent of meeting." So the three of them went.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - The LORD said, "Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known to him in a vision; I will speak with him in a dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:11 - So Aaron said to Moses, "O my lord, please do not hold this sin against us, in which we have acted foolishly and have sinned!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - The LORD said to Moses, "If her father had only spit in her face, would she not have been disgraced for seven days? Shut her out from the camp seven days, and afterward she can be brought back in again."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:30 - Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses, saying, "Let us go up and occupy it, for we are well able to conquer it."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - However, the whole community threatened to stone them. But the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:11 - The LORD said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:13 - Moses said to the LORD, "When the Egyptians hear it - for you brought up this people by your power from among them -
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:20 - Then the LORD said, "I have forgiven them as you asked.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:26 - The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:40 - And early in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country, saying, "Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the LORD commanded, for we have sinned."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:41 - But Moses said, "Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the LORD? It will not succeed!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:1 - The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:37 - The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:8 - Moses said to Korah, "Listen now, you sons of Levi!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:15 - Moses was very angry, and he said to the LORD, "Have no respect for their offering! I have not taken so much as one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:16 - Then Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company present yourselves before the LORD - you and they, and Aaron - tomorrow.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:28 - Then Moses said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of my own will.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:36 - (17:1) The LORD spoke to Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:46 - Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take the censer, put burning coals from the altar in it, place incense on it, and go quickly into the assembly and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the LORD - the plague has begun!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:10 - The LORD said to Moses, "Bring Aaron's staff back before the testimony to be preserved for a sign to the rebels, so that you may bring their murmurings to an end before me, that they will not die."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:1 - The LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your tribe with you must bear the iniquity of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you must bear the iniquity of your priesthood.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:10 - Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them, "Listen, you rebels, must we bring water out of this rock for you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:12 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not trust me enough to show me as holy before the Israelites, therefore you will not bring this community into the land I have given them."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - But Edom said to him, "You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - But he said, "You may not pass through." Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful force.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:23 - And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom. He said:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:2 - So Israel made a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - The LORD said to Moses, "Make a poisonous snake and set it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses, "Gather the people and I will give them water."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:34 - And the LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand. You will do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, "Now this mass of people will lick up everything around us, as the bull devours the grass of the field. Now Balak son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at this time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:8 - He replied to them, "Stay here tonight, and I will bring back to you whatever word the LORD may speak to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:9 - And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:10 - Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent a message to me, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:12 - But God said to Balaam, "You must not go with them; you must not curse the people, for they are blessed."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:13 - So Balaam got up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land, for the LORD has refused to permit me to go with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, "Even if Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I could not transgress the commandment of the LORD my God to do less or more.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:20 - God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:29 - And Balaam said to the donkey, "You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:30 - The donkey said to Balaam, "Am not I your donkey that you have ridden ever since I was yours until this day? Have I ever attempted to treat you this way?" And he said, "No."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:32 - The angel of the LORD said to him, "Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Look, I came out to oppose you because what you are doing is perverse before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Balaam said to the angel of the LORD, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you stood against me in the road. So now, if it is evil in your sight, I will go back home."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:35 - But the angel of the LORD said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but you may only speak the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:37 - Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not send again and again to you to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I have come to you. Now, am I able to speak just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 - Balaam said to Balak, "Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:2 - So Balak did just as Balaam had said. Balak and Balaam then offered on each altar a bull and a ram.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself by your burnt offering, and I will go off; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever he reveals to me I will tell you." Then he went to a deserted height.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - Then God met Balaam, who said to him, "I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:5 - Then the LORD put a message in Balaam's mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:7 - Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, "Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, 'Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.'
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:11 - Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:12 - Balaam replied, "Must I not be careful to speak what the LORD has put in my mouth?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:13 - Balak said to him, "Please come with me to another place from which you can observe them. You will see only a part of them, but you will not see all of them. Curse them for me from there."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here by your burnt offering, while I meet the LORD there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - Then the LORD met Balaam and put a message in his mouth and said, "Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:17 - When Balaam came to him, he was still standing by his burnt offering, along with the princes of Moab. And Balak said to him, "What has the LORD spoken?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:18 - Balaam uttered his oracle, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, son of Zippor:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:25 - Balak said to Balaam, "Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:26 - But Balaam replied to Balak, "Did I not tell you, 'All that the LORD speaks, I must do'?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:27 - Balak said to Balaam, "Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - Then Balaam said to Balak, "Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:30 - So Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:3 - Then he uttered this oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:10 - Then Balak became very angry at Balaam, and he struck his hands together. Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have done nothing but bless them these three times!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:12 - Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:15 - Then he uttered this oracle: "The oracle of Balaam son of Beor; the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - Then Balaam looked on Amalek and delivered this oracle: "Amalek was the first of the nations, but his end will be that he will perish."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:21 - Then he looked on the Kenites and uttered this oracle: "Your dwelling place seems strong, and your nest is set on a rocky cliff.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:23 - Then he uttered this oracle: "O, who will survive when God does this!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - The LORD said to Moses, "Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the LORD in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:5 - So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you must execute those of his men who were joined to Baal-peor."
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:65 - For the LORD had said of them, "They will surely die in the wilderness." And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land I have given to the Israelites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:15 - Then Moses spoke to the LORD:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:15 - Moses said to them, "Have you allowed all the women to live?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:21 - Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, "This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded Moses:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, "Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 - Then Moses replied, "If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - Moses said to them: "If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD's presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:21 - Look, he has placed the land in front of you! Go up, take possession of it, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to do. Do not be afraid or discouraged!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:42 - But the LORD told me: "Tell them this: 'Do not go up and fight, because I will not be with you and you will be defeated by your enemies.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:2 - At this point the LORD said to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:9 - Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:31 - The LORD said to me, "Look! I have already begun to give over Sihon and his land to you. Start right now to take his land as your possession."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:2 - The LORD, however, said to me, "Don't be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:26 - But the LORD was angry at me because of you and would not listen to me. Instead, he said to me, "Enough of that! Do not speak to me anymore about this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - You stood before the LORD your God at Horeb and he said to me, "Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 - Then Moses called all the people of Israel together and said to them: "Listen, Israel, to the statutes and ordinances that I am about to deliver to you today; learn them and be careful to keep them!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:28 - When the LORD heard you speaking to me, he said to me, "I have heard what these people have said to you - they have spoken well.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - And he said to me, "Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:13 - Moreover, he said to me, "I have taken note of these people; they are a stubborn lot!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:25 - I lay flat on the ground before the LORD for forty days and nights, for he had said he would destroy you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say, "The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that same time the LORD said to me, "Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:9 - Therefore Levi has no allotment or inheritance among his brothers; the LORD is his inheritance just as the LORD your God told him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:11 - Then he said to me, "Get up, set out leading the people so they may go and possess the land I promised to give to their ancestors."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the LORD has said you must never again return that way.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:2 - They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the LORD alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:17 - The LORD then said to me, "What they have said is good.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:8 - If the LORD your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:3 - Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:2 - Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows: "You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:2 - He said to them, "Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, and the LORD has said to me, 'You will not cross the Jordan.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:7 - Then Moses called out to Joshua in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the LORD promised to give their ancestors, and you will enable them to inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "The day of your death is near. Summon Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting so that I can commission him." So Moses and Joshua presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - Then the LORD said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:23 - and the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun, "Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:20 - He said, "I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:37 - He will say, "Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:46 - he said to them, "Keep in mind all the words I am solemnly proclaiming to you today; you must command your children to observe carefully all the words of this law.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:2 - He said: The LORD came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:8 - Of Levi he said: Your Thummim and Urim belong to your godly one, whose authority you challenged at Massah, and with whom you argued at the waters of Meribah.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:12 - Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD will live safely by him; he protects him all the time, and the LORD places him on his chest.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:13 - Of Joseph he said: May the LORD bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:18 - Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:20 - Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he will dwell; he will tear at an arm - indeed, a scalp.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:22 - Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's cub; he will leap forth from Bashan.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:23 - Of Naphtali he said: O Naphtali, overflowing with favor, and full of the LORD's blessing, possess the west and south.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:24 - Of Asher he said: Asher is blessed with children, may he be favored by his brothers and may he dip his foot in olive oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:4 - Then the LORD said to him, "This is the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it, but you will not cross over there."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:1 - After Moses the LORD's servant died, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:12 - Joshua told the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:3 - So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: "Turn over the men who came to you - the ones who came to your house - for they have come to spy on the whole land!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:4 - But the woman hid the two men and replied, "Yes, these men were clients of mine, but I didn't know where they came from.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:9 - She said to the men, "I know the LORD is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:14 - The men said to her, "If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we've been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:16 - She told them, "Head to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don't find you. Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you to return. Then you can be on your way."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:21 - She said, "I agree to these conditions." She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:5 - Joshua told the people, "Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will perform miraculous deeds among you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:6 - Joshua told the priests, "Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people." So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:7 - The LORD told Joshua, "This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:9 - Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - When the entire nation was on the other side, the LORD told Joshua,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - Joshua told them, "Go in front of the ark of the LORD your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:15 - The LORD told Joshua,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:9 - The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you." So that place is called Gilgal even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:13 - When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him, "Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - He answered, "Truly I am the commander of the LORD's army. Now I have arrived!" Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground and asked, "What does my master want to say to his servant?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:2 - The LORD told Joshua, "See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, along with its king and its warriors.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:7 - And he told the army, "Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:16 - The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams' horns and Joshua told the army, "Give the battle cry, for the LORD is handing the city over to you!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:22 - Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, "Enter the prostitute's house and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:7 - Joshua prayed, "O, Master, LORD! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:10 - The LORD responded to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying there face down?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:19 - So Joshua said to Achan, "My son, honor the LORD God of Israel and give him praise! Tell me what you did; don't hide anything from me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:20 - Achan told Joshua, "It is true. I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel in this way:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:25 - Joshua said, "Why have you brought disaster on us? The LORD will bring disaster on you today!" All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - The LORD told Joshua, "Don't be afraid and don't panic! Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! See, I am handing over to you the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - The LORD told Joshua, "Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city over to you." So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:8 - But they said to Joshua, "We are willing to be your subjects." So Joshua said to them, "Who are you and where do you come from?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:22 - Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, "Why did you trick us by saying, 'We live far away from you,' when you really live nearby?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:8 - The LORD told Joshua, "Don't be afraid of them, for I am handing them over to you. Not one of them can resist you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:12 - The day the LORD delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the LORD before Israel: "O sun, stand still over Gibeon! O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:18 - Joshua said, "Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:22 - Joshua said, "Open the cave's mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:25 - Then Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid and don't panic! Be strong and brave, for the LORD will do the same thing to all your enemies you fight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - The LORD told Joshua, "Don't be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - for the LORD determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 - When Joshua was very old, the LORD told him, "You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:14 - However, Moses did not assign land as an inheritance to the Levites; their inheritance is the sacrificial offerings made to the LORD God of Israel, as he instructed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - The men of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said about you and me to Moses, the man of God, at Kadesh Barnea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - So now, look, the LORD has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the LORD spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - Now, assign me this hill country which the LORD promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But, assuming the LORD is with me, I will conquer them, as the LORD promised."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:16 - Caleb said, "To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:18 - One time Acsah came and charmed her father so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:19 - She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:15 - Joshua replied to them, "Since you have so many people, go up into the forest and clear out a place to live in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites, for the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:17 - Joshua said to the family of Joseph - to both Ephraim and Manasseh: "You have many people and great military strength. You will not have just one tribal allotment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:3 - So Joshua said to the Israelites: "How long do you intend to put off occupying the land the LORD God of your ancestors has given you?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:2 - and told them: "You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the LORD's servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - Now the LORD your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the LORD's servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:31 - Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the Manassehites, "Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not disobeyed the LORD in this. Now you have rescued the Israelites from the LORD's judgment."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:34 - The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, "Surely it is a Reminder to us that the LORD is God."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - So Joshua summoned all Israel, including the elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and told them: "I am very old.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - One of you makes a thousand run away, for the LORD your God fights for you as he promised you he would.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - "Look, today I am about to die. You know with all your heart and being that not even one of all the faithful promises the LORD your God made to you is left unfulfilled; every one was realized - not one promise is unfulfilled!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - Joshua told all the people, "Here is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'In the distant past your ancestors lived beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped other gods,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:16 - The people responded, "Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 - Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:21 - The people said to Joshua, "No! We really will worship the LORD!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - Joshua said to the people, "Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?" They replied, "We are witnesses!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:24 - The people said to Joshua, "We will worship the LORD our God and obey him."
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:27 - Joshua said to all the people, "Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:2 - The LORD said, "The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - The men of Judah said to their relatives, the men of Simeon, "Invade our allotted land with us and help us attack the Canaanites. Then we will go with you into your allotted land." So the men of Simeon went with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:7 - Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, with thumbs and big toes cut off, used to lick up food scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I did to them." They brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - Caleb said, "To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:14 - One time Acsah came and charmed her father so she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, "What would you like?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - The LORD's angelic messenger went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said, 'I will never break my agreement with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - The LORD was furious with Israel. He said, "This nation has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:19 - But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon, "I have a secret message for you, O king." Eglon said, "Be quiet!" All his attendants left.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:20 - When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." When Eglon rose up from his seat,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:28 - He said to them, "Follow me, for the LORD is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!" They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali. She said to him, "Is it not true that the LORD God of Israel is commanding you? Go, march to Mount Tabor! Take with you ten thousand men from Naphtali and Zebulun!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:8 - Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - She said, "I will indeed go with you. But you will not gain fame on the expedition you are undertaking, for the LORD will turn Sisera over to a woman." Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Deborah said to Barak, "Spring into action, for this is the day the LORD is handing Sisera over to you! Has the LORD not taken the lead?" Barak quickly went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - Jael came out to welcome Sisera. She said to him, "Stop and rest, my lord. Stop and rest with me. Don't be afraid." So Sisera stopped to rest in her tent, and she put a blanket over him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:19 - He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:20 - He said to her, "Stand watch at the entrance to the tent. If anyone comes along and asks you, 'Is there a man here?' say 'No.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, "Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for." He went with her into the tent, and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead with the tent peg in his temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:1 - On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this victory song:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:23 - 'Call judgment down on Meroz,' says the LORD's angelic messenger; 'Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the LORD's battle, to help in the LORD's battle against the warriors.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said to them, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'I brought you up from Egypt and took you out of that place of slavery.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:12 - The LORD's messenger appeared and said to him, "The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:13 - Gideon said to him, "Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, 'Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - Then the LORD himself turned to him and said, "You have the strength. Deliver Israel from the power of the Midianites! Have I not sent you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - Gideon said to him, "But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:16 - The LORD said to him, "Ah, but I will be with you! You will strike down the whole Midianite army."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:17 - Gideon said to him, "If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:18 - Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you." The LORD said, "I will stay here until you come back."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:20 - God's messenger said to him, "Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth." Gideon did as instructed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:22 - When Gideon realized that it was the LORD's messenger, he said, "Oh no! Master, LORD! I have seen the LORD's messenger face to face!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:23 - The LORD said to him, "You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:25 - That night the LORD said to him, "Take the bull from your father's herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. Pull down your father's Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:29 - They said to one another, "Who did this?" They investigated the matter thoroughly and concluded that Gideon son of Joash had done it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:31 - But Joash said to all those who confronted him, "Must you fight Baal's battles? Must you rescue him? Whoever takes up his cause will die by morning! If he really is a god, let him fight his own battles! After all, it was his altar that was pulled down."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Gideon said to God, "If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:39 - Gideon said to God, "Please do not get angry at me, when I ask for just one more sign. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time make only the fleece dry, while the ground around it is covered with dew."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you. Israel might brag, 'Our own strength has delivered us.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:3 - Now, announce to the men, 'Whoever is shaking with fear may turn around and leave Mount Gilead.'" Twenty-two thousand men went home; ten thousand remained.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:4 - The LORD spoke to Gideon again, "There are still too many men. Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. When I say, 'This one should go with you,' pick him to go; when I say, 'This one should not go with you,' do not take him."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:5 - So he brought the men down to the water. Then the LORD said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:7 - The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army and I will hand Midian over to you. The rest of the men should go home."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:9 - That night the LORD said to Gideon, "Get up! Attack the camp, for I am handing it over to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. The man said, "Look! I had a dream. I saw a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - The other man said, "Without a doubt this symbolizes the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up, for the LORD is handing the Midianite army over to you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:17 - He said to them, "Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:1 - The Ephraimites said to him, "Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us when you went to fight the Midianites!" They argued vehemently with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:2 - He said to them, "Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim's leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer's harvest!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:5 - He said to the men of Succoth, "Give some loaves of bread to the men who are following me, because they are exhausted. I am chasing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:7 - Gideon said, "Since you will not help, after the LORD hands Zebah and Zalmunna over to me, I will thresh your skin with desert thorns and briers."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning, "When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:15 - He approached the men of Succoth and said, "Look what I have! Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying, 'You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:18 - He said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Describe for me the men you killed at Tabor." They said, "They were like you. Each one looked like a king's son."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:19 - He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the LORD is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:20 - He ordered Jether his firstborn son, "Come on! Kill them!" But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, because he was still young.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:21 - Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, "Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength." So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - The men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us - you, your son, and your grandson. For you have delivered us from Midian's power."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:23 - Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The LORD will rule over you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:24 - Gideon continued, "I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken." (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:7 - When Jotham heard the news, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, "Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:9 - But the olive tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my oil, which is used to honor gods and men, just to sway above the other trees!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - But the fig tree said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my sweet figs, my excellent fruit, just to sway above the other trees!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:13 - But the grapevine said to them, 'I am not going to stop producing my wine, which makes gods and men so happy, just to sway above the other trees!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:28 - Gaal son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:36 - Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul, "Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills." But Zebul said to him, "You are seeing the shadows on the hills - it just looks like men."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:37 - Gaal again said, "Look, men are coming down from the very center of the land. A unit is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:38 - Zebul said to him, "Where now are your bragging words, 'Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?' Are these not the men you insulted? Go out now and fight them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - He and all his men went up on Mount Zalmon. He took an ax in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it on his shoulder and said to his men, "Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, "Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, 'A woman killed him.'" So the young man stabbed him and he died.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - The LORD said to the Israelites, "Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:7 - Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, "But you hated me and made me leave my father's house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:9 - Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, "All right! If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, I will be your leader."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - The Ammonite king said to Jephthah's messengers, "Because Israel stole my land when they came up from Egypt - from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. Now return it peaceably!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:19 - Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, "Please allow us to pass through your land to our land."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:30 - Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, saying, "If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:35 - When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, "Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! You have brought me disaster! I made an oath to the LORD, and I cannot break it."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - She said to him, "My father, since you made an oath to the LORD, do to me as you promised. After all, the LORD vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:37 - She then said to her father, "Please grant me this one wish. For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:38 - He said, "You may go." He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:2 - Jephthah said to them, "My people and I were entangled in controversy with the Ammonites. I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - The LORD's angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, "You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - The woman went and said to her husband, "A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God's angelic messenger - he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:8 - Manoah prayed to the LORD, "Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:10 - The woman ran at once and told her husband, "Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:11 - So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "Yes."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:12 - Manoah said, "Now, when your announcement comes true, how should the child be raised and what should he do?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:13 - The LORD's messenger told Manoah, "Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:15 - Manoah said to the LORD's messenger, "Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:16 - The LORD's messenger said to Manoah, "If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it." (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD's messenger.)
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:17 - Manoah said to the LORD's messenger, "Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:18 - The LORD's messenger said to him, "You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:22 - Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said to him, "If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - When he got home, he told his father and mother, "A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. Now get her for my wife."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - But his father and mother said to him, "Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines." But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, because she is the right one for me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Samson said to them, "I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:14 - He said to them, "Out of the one who eats came something to eat; out of the strong one came something sweet." They could not solve the riddle for three days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - So Samson's bride cried on his shoulder and said, "You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution." He said to her, "Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:18 - On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father, "I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!" But her father would not let him enter.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - Her father said, "I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:3 - Samson said to them, "This time I am justified in doing the Philistines harm!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Samson said to them, "Because you did this, I will get revenge against you before I quit fighting."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:11 - Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?" He said to them, "I have only done to them what they have done to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:12 - They said to him, "We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines." Samson said to them, "Promise me you will not kill me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:16 - Samson then said, "With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:18 - He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the LORD and said, "You have given your servant this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:6 - So Delilah said to Samson, "Tell me what makes you so strong and how you can be subdued and humiliated."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, "If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - They hid in the bedroom and then she said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He snapped the bowstrings as easily as a thread of yarn snaps when it is put close to fire. The secret of his strength was not discovered.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:10 - Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with brand new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be just like any other man."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:12 - So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:13 - Delilah said to Samson, "Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies. Tell me how you can be subdued." He said to her, "If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the fabric on the loom and secure it with the pin, I will become weak and be like any other man."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:14 - So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:15 - She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:20 - She said, "The Philistines are here, Samson!" He woke up and thought, "I will do as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not realize that the LORD had left him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:26 - Samson said to the young man who held his hand, "Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. Then I can lean on them."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 - Samson called to the LORD, "O Master, LORD, remember me! Strengthen me just one more time, O God, so I can get swift revenge against the Philistines for my two eyes!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - He said to his mother, "You know the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole it, but now I am giving it back to you." His mother said, "May the LORD reward you, my son!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said, "I solemnly dedicate this silver to the LORD. It will be for my son's benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" He replied, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10 - Micah said to him, "Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:13 - Micah said, "Now I know God will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:4 - He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, "He hired me and I became his priest."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:6 - The priest said to them, "Go with confidence. The LORD will be with you on your mission."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - When these men broke into Micah's house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:24 - He said, "You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, 'What do you want?'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:5 - On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave. But the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Have a bite to eat for some energy, then you can go."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:6 - So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. Then the girl's father said to the man, "Why not stay another night and have a good time!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:8 - He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl's father said, "Get some energy. Wait until later in the day to leave!" So they ate a meal together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:9 - When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:11 - When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late and the servant said to his master, "Come on, let's stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night in it."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - But his master said to him, "We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:13 - He said to his servant, "Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said, "Where are you heading? Where do you come from?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:18 - The Levite said to him, "We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That's where I'm from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I'm heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - The old man said, "Everything is just fine! I will take care of all your needs. But don't spend the night in the town square."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:23 - The man who owned the house went outside and said to them, "No, my brothers! Don't do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Don't do such a disgraceful thing!
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:28 - He said to her, "Get up, let's leave!" But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up, "I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:18 - The Israelites went up to Bethel and asked God, "Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?" The LORD said, "Judah should lead."
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:23 - The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD, "Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?" The LORD said, "Attack them!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:28 - Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the LORD in those days), "Should we once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers, or should we quit?" The LORD said, "Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them over to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:8 - Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother's home! May the LORD show you the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands and to me!
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:11 - But Naomi replied, "Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands!
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:15 - So Naomi said, "Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law back home!"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:16 - But Ruth replied, "Stop urging me to abandon you! For wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live. Your people will become my people, and your God will become my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:20 - But she replied to them, "Don't call me 'Naomi'! Call me 'Mara' because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:2 - One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Let me go to the fields so I can gather grain behind whoever permits me to do so." Naomi replied, "You may go, my daughter."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:4 - Now at that very moment, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, "May the LORD be with you!" They replied, "May the LORD bless you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:5 - Boaz asked his servant in charge of the harvesters, "To whom does this young woman belong?"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:6 - The servant in charge of the harvesters replied, "She's the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the region of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:7 - She asked, 'May I follow the harvesters and gather grain among the bundles?' Since she arrived she has been working hard from this morning until now - except for sitting in the resting hut a short time."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:8 - So Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen carefully, my dear! Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside my female workers.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, "Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:11 - Boaz replied to her, "I have been given a full report of all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband - how you left your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:13 - She said, "You really are being kind to me, sir, for you have reassured and encouraged me, your servant, even though I am not one of your servants!"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:14 - Later during the mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here and have some food! Dip your bread in the vinegar!" So she sat down beside the harvesters. Then he handed her some roasted grain. She ate until she was full and saved the rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:19 - Her mother-in-law asked her, "Where did you gather grain today? Where did you work? May the one who took notice of you be rewarded!" So Ruth told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked. She said, "The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be rewarded by the LORD because he has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!" Then Naomi said to her, "This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:21 - Ruth the Moabite replied, "He even told me, 'You may go along beside my servants until they have finished gathering all my harvest!'"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:22 - Naomi then said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, "It is good, my daughter, that you should go out to work with his female servants. That way you will not be harmed, which could happen in another field."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:1 - At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:5 - Ruth replied to Naomi, "I will do everything you have told me to do."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:9 - He said, "Who are you?" She replied, "I am Ruth, your servant. Marry your servant, for you are a guardian of the family interests."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - He said, "May you be rewarded by the LORD, my dear! This act of devotion is greater than what you did before. For you have not sought to marry one of the young men, whether rich or poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:14 - So she slept beside him until morning. She woke up while it was still dark. Boaz thought, "No one must know that a woman visited the threshing floor."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:15 - Then he said, "Hold out the shawl you are wearing and grip it tightly." As she held it tightly, he measured out about sixty pounds of barley into the shawl and put it on her shoulders. Then he went into town,
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:16 - and she returned to her mother-in-law. When Ruth returned to her mother-in-law, Naomi asked, "How did things turn out for you, my daughter?" Ruth told her about all the man had done for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:17 - She said, "He gave me these sixty pounds of barley, for he said to me, 'Do not go to your mother-in-law empty-handed.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:18 - Then Naomi said, "Stay put, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out. For the man will not rest until he has taken care of the matter today."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:1 - Now Boaz went up to the village gate and sat there. Then along came the guardian whom Boaz had mentioned to Ruth! Boaz said, "Come here and sit down, 'John Doe'!" So he came and sat down.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:2 - Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said, "Sit down here!" So they sat down.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:3 - Then Boaz said to the guardian, "Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, is selling the portion of land that belongs to our relative Elimelech.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:4 - So I am legally informing you: Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people! If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so. But if not, then tell me so I will know. For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you." He replied, "I will redeem it."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:5 - Then Boaz said, "When you acquire the field from Naomi, you must also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of our deceased relative, in order to preserve his family name by raising up a descendant who will inherit his property."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:6 - The guardian said, "Then I am unable to redeem it, for I would ruin my own inheritance in that case. You may exercise my redemption option, for I am unable to redeem it."
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:8 - So the guardian said to Boaz, "You may acquire it," and he removed his sandal.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:9 - Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the people, "You are witnesses today that I have acquired from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, "Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14 - So he said to her, "How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:15 - But Hannah replied, "That's not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:17 - Eli replied, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:18 - She said, "May I, your servant, find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way and got something to eat. Her face no longer looked sad.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:20 - After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, "I asked the LORD for him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:22 - but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, "Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the LORD, and he will remain there from then on."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:23 - So her husband Elkanah said to her, "Do what you think best. Stay until you have weaned him. May the LORD fulfill his promise." So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:26 - She said, "Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:1 - Hannah prayed, "My heart rejoices in the LORD; my horn is exalted high because of the LORD. I loudly denounce my enemies, for I am happy that you delivered me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - If the individual said to him, "First let the fat be burned away, and then take for yourself whatever you wish," he would say, "No! Hand it over right now! If you don't, I will take it forcibly!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:23 - He said to them, "Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:27 - A man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Did I not plainly reveal myself to your ancestor's house when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharaoh?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'I really did say that your house and your ancestor's house would serve me forever.' But now the LORD says, 'May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:4 - The LORD called to Samuel, and he replied, "Here I am!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:5 - Then he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But Eli said, "I didn't call you. Go back and lie down." So he went back and lay down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:6 - The LORD again called, "Samuel!" So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But Eli said, "I didn't call you, my son. Go back and lie down."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:8 - Then the LORD called Samuel a third time. So he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me!" Eli then realized that it was the LORD who was calling the boy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:9 - So Eli said to Samuel, "Go back and lie down. When he calls you, say, "Speak, LORD, for your servant is listening." So Samuel went back and lay down in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:10 - Then the LORD came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, "Samuel! Samuel!" Samuel replied, "Speak, for your servant is listening!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:11 - The LORD said to Samuel, "Look! I am about to do something in Israel; when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:16 - However, Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" He replied, "Here I am."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:17 - Eli said, "What message did he speak to you? Don't conceal it from me. God will judge you severely if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:18 - So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli said, "The LORD will do what he pleases."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:14 - When Eli heard the outcry, he said, "What is this commotion?" The man quickly came and told Eli.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:15 - Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:16 - The man said to Eli, "I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!" Eli asked, "How did things go, my son?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - The messenger replied, "Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - Samuel said to all the people of Israel, "If you are really turning to the LORD with all your hearts, remove from among you the foreign gods and the images of Ashtoreth. Give your hearts to the LORD and serve only him. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:5 - Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:12 - Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, "Up to here the LORD has helped us."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:7 - The LORD said to Samuel, "Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:10 - So Samuel spoke all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:11 - He said, "Here are the policies of the king who will rule over you: He will conscript your sons and put them in his chariot forces and in his cavalry; they will run in front of his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - The LORD said to Samuel, "Do as they say and install a king over them." Then Samuel said to the men of Israel, "Each of you go back to his own city."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:3 - The donkeys of Saul's father Kish wandered off, so Kish said to his son Saul, "Take one of the servants with you and go look for the donkeys."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:5 - When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come on, let's head back before my father quits worrying about the donkeys and becomes anxious about us!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - But the servant said to him, "Look, there is a man of God in this town. He is highly respected. Everything that he says really happens. Now let's go there. Perhaps he will tell us where we should go from here."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:7 - So Saul said to his servant, "All right, we can go. But what can we bring the man, since the food in our bags is used up? We have no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:8 - The servant went on to answer Saul, "Look, I happen to have in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God and he will tell us where we should go."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:10 - So Saul said to his servant, "That's a good idea! Come on. Let's go." So they went to the town where the man of God was.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:18 - As Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate, he said, "Please tell me where the seer's house is."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:19 - Samuel replied to Saul, "I am the seer! Go up in front of me to the high place! Today you will eat with me and in the morning I will send you away. I will tell you everything that you are thinking.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - Saul replied, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel's tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:23 - Samuel said to the cook, "Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you - the one I asked you to keep with you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:24 - So the cook picked up the leg and brought it and set it in front of Saul. Samuel said, "What was kept is now set before you! Eat, for it has been kept for you for this meeting time, from the time I said, 'I have invited the people.'" So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:27 - While they were going down to the edge of town, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to go on ahead of us." So he did. Samuel then said, "You remain here awhile, so I can inform you of God's message."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:1 - Then Samuel took a small container of olive oil and poured it on Saul's head. Samuel kissed him and said, "The LORD has chosen you to lead his people Israel! You will rule over the LORD's people and you will deliver them from the power of the enemies who surround them. This will be your sign that the LORD has chosen you as leader over his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:11 - When everyone who had known him previously saw him prophesying with the prophets, the people all asked one another, "What on earth has happened to the son of Kish? Does even Saul belong with the prophets?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:12 - A man who was from there replied, "And who is their father?" Therefore this became a proverb: "Is even Saul among the prophets?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:14 - Saul's uncle asked him and his servant, "Where did you go?" Saul replied, "To look for the donkeys. But when we realized they were lost, we went to Samuel."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:15 - Saul's uncle said, "Tell me what Samuel said to you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:16 - Saul said to his uncle, "He assured us that the donkeys had been found." But Saul did not tell him what Samuel had said about the matter of kingship.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - He said to the Israelites, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, 'I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - So they inquired again of the LORD, "Has the man arrived here yet?" The LORD said, "He has hidden himself among the equipment."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:24 - Then Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see the one whom the LORD has chosen? Indeed, there is no one like him among all the people!" All the people shouted out, "Long live the king!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:25 - Then Samuel talked to the people about how the kingship would work. He wrote it all down on a scroll and set it before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away to their homes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:2 - But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "The only way I will make a treaty with you is if you let me gouge out the right eye of every one of you and in so doing humiliate all Israel!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:5 - Now Saul was walking behind the oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, "What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?" So they told him about the men of Jabesh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - They said to the messengers who had come, "Here's what you should say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: 'Tomorrow deliverance will come to you when the sun is fully up.'" When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh Gilead, they were happy.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 - Then the people said to Samuel, "Who were the ones asking, 'Will Saul reign over us?' Hand over those men so we may execute them!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:13 - But Saul said, "No one will be killed on this day. For today the LORD has given Israel a victory!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:14 - Samuel said to the people, "Come on! Let's go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:1 - Samuel said to all Israel, "I have done everything you requested. I have given you a king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:5 - He said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his chosen king is witness this day, that you have not found any reason to accuse me." They said, "He is witness!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:6 - Samuel said to the people, "The LORD is the one who chose Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:20 - Then Samuel said to the people, "Don't be afraid. You have indeed sinned. However, don't turn aside from the LORD. Serve the LORD with all your heart.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:8 - He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:9 - So Saul said, "Bring me the burnt offering and the peace offerings." Then he offered a burnt offering.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:11 - But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul replied, "When I saw that the army had started to abandon me and that you didn't come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had assembled at Micmash,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - Then Samuel said to Saul, "You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:1 - Then one day Jonathan son of Saul said to his armor bearer, "Come on, let's go over to the Philistine garrison that is opposite us." But he did not let his father know.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:6 - Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come on, let's go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will intervene for us. Nothing can prevent the LORD from delivering, whether by many or by a few."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:7 - His armor bearer said to him, "Do everything that is on your mind. Do as you're inclined. I'm with you all the way!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:8 - Jonathan replied, "All right! We'll go over to these men and fight them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:12 - Then the men of the garrison said to Jonathan and his armor bearer, "Come on up to us so we can teach you a thing or two!" Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up behind me, for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:17 - So Saul said to the army that was with him, "Muster the troops and see who is no longer with us." When they mustered the troops, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:18 - So Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring near the ephod," for he was at that time wearing the ephod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - While Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines' camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:28 - Then someone from the army informed him, "Your father put the army under a strict oath saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today!' That is why the army is tired."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:29 - Then Jonathan said, "My father has caused trouble for the land. See how my eyes gleamed when I tasted just a little of this honey.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:33 - Now it was reported to Saul, "Look, the army is sinning against the LORD by eating even the blood." He said, "All of you have broken the covenant! Roll a large stone over here to me."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:34 - Then Saul said, "Scatter out among the army and say to them, 'Each of you bring to me your ox and sheep and slaughter them in this spot and eat. But don't sin against the LORD by eating the blood." So that night each one brought his ox and slaughtered it there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:36 - Saul said, "Let's go down after the Philistines at night; we will rout them until the break of day. We won't leave any of them alive!" They replied, "Do whatever seems best to you." But the priest said, "Let's approach God here."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:38 - Then Saul said, "All you leaders of the army come here. Find out how this sin occurred today.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:40 - Then he said to all Israel, "You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other side." The army replied to Saul, "Do whatever you think is best."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:41 - Then Saul said, "O LORD God of Israel! If this sin has been committed by me or by my son Jonathan, then, O LORD God of Israel, respond with Urim. But if this sin has been committed by your people Israel, respond with Thummim." Then Jonathan and Saul were indicated by lot, while the army was exonerated.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:42 - Then Saul said, "Cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan!" Jonathan was indicated by lot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:43 - So Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done." Jonathan told him, "I used the end of the staff that was in my hand to taste a little honey. I must die!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:44 - Saul said, "God will punish me severely if Jonathan doesn't die!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:45 - But the army said to Saul, "Should Jonathan, who won this great victory in Israel, die? May it never be! As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of his head will fall to the ground! For it is with the help of God that he has acted today." So the army rescued Jonathan from death.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - Then Samuel said to Saul, "I was the one the LORD sent to anoint you as king over his people Israel. Now listen to what the LORD says.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - Here is what the LORD of hosts says: 'I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Saul said to the Kenites, "Go on and leave! Go down from among the Amalekites! Otherwise I will sweep you away with them! After all, you were kind to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt." So the Kenites withdrew from among the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:13 - When Samuel came to him, Saul said to him, "May the LORD bless you! I have done what the LORD said."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:14 - Samuel replied, "If that is the case, then what is this sound of sheep in my ears and the sound of cattle that I hear?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:15 - Saul said, "They were brought from the Amalekites; the army spared the best of the flocks and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD our God. But everything else we slaughtered."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:16 - Then Samuel said to Saul, "Wait a minute! Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night." Saul said to him, "Tell me."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - Samuel said, "Is it not true that when you were insignificant in your own eyes, you became head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD chose you as king over Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - Then Saul said to Samuel, "But I have obeyed the LORD! I went on the campaign the LORD sent me on. I brought back King Agag of the Amalekites after exterminating the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - Then Samuel said, "Does the LORD take pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as he does in obedience? Certainly, obedience is better than sacrifice; paying attention is better than the fat of rams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:24 - Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned, for I have disobeyed what the LORD commanded and what you said as well. For I was afraid of the army, and I followed their wishes.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - Samuel said to Saul, "I will not go back with you, for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - Samuel said to him, "The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to one of your colleagues who is better than you!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Saul again replied, "I have sinned. But please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel. Go back with me so I may worship the LORD your God."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, "Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites." So Agag came to him trembling, thinking to himself, "Surely death is bitter!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - Samuel said, "Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!" Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - The LORD said to Samuel, "How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you to Jesse in Bethlehem, for I have selected a king for myself from among his sons."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:2 - Samuel replied, "How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me!" But the LORD said, "Take a heifer with you and say, 'I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:5 - He replied, "Yes, in peace. I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." So he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:6 - When they arrived, Samuel noticed Eliab and said to himself, "Surely, here before the LORD stands his chosen king!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:7 - But the LORD said to Samuel, "Don't be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:8 - Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel. But Samuel said, "The LORD has not chosen this one, either."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:9 - Then Jesse presented Shammah. But Samuel said, "The LORD has not chosen this one either."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:10 - Jesse presented seven of his sons to Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, "The LORD has not chosen any of these."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Is that all of the young men?" Jesse replied, "There is still the youngest one, but he's taking care of the flock." Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and get him, for we cannot turn our attention to other things until he comes here."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:12 - So Jesse had him brought in. Now he was ruddy, with attractive eyes and a handsome appearance. The LORD said, "Go and anoint him. This is the one!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:17 - So Saul said to his servants, "Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:18 - One of his attendants replied, "I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior and is articulate and handsome, for the LORD is with him."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - Goliath stood and called to Israel's troops, "Why do you come out to prepare for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose for yourselves a man so he may come down to me!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:10 - Then the Philistine said, "I defy Israel's troops this day! Give me a man so we can fight each other!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:32 - David said to Saul, "Don't let anyone be discouraged. Your servant will go and fight this Philistine!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:33 - But Saul replied to David, "You aren't able to go against this Philistine and fight him! You're just a boy! He has been a warrior from his youth!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:34 - David replied to Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd for his father's flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:37 - David went on to say, "The LORD who delivered me from the lion and the bear will also deliver me from the hand of this Philistine!" Then Saul said to David, "Go! The LORD will be with you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:39 - David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire and tried to walk around, but he was not used to them. David said to Saul, "I can't walk in these things, for I'm not used to them." So David removed them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:43 - The Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?" Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:44 - The Philistine said to David, "Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:8 - This made Saul very angry. The statement displeased him and he thought, "They have attributed to David tens of thousands, but to me they have attributed only thousands. What does he lack, except the kingdom?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:21 - Saul said, "I will give her to him so that she may become a snare to him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "Today is the second time for you to become my son-in-law."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:23 - So Saul's servants spoke these words privately to David. David replied, "Is becoming the king's son-in-law something insignificant to you? I'm just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:25 - Saul replied, "Here is what you should say to David: 'There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.'" (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:4 - So Jonathan spoke on David's behalf to his father Saul. He said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, for he has not sinned against you. On the contrary, his actions have been very beneficial for you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:17 - Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!" Michal replied to Saul, "He said to me, 'Help me get away or else I will kill you!'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Finally Saul himself went to Ramah. When he arrived at the large cistern that is in Secu, he asked, "Where are Samuel and David?" They said, "At Naioth in Ramah."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:1 - David fled from Naioth in Ramah. He came to Jonathan and asked, "What have I done? What is my offense? How have I sinned before your father? For he is seeking my life!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - Jonathan said to him, "By no means are you going to die! My father does nothing large or small without making me aware of it. Why would my father hide this matter from me? It just won't happen!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - Taking an oath, David again said, "Your father is very much aware of the fact that I have found favor with you, and he has thought, 'Don't let Jonathan know about this, or he will be upset.' But as surely as the LORD lives and you live, there is about one step between me and death!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:4 - Jonathan replied to David, "Tell me what I can do for you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:5 - David said to Jonathan, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and I am certainly expected to join the king for a meal. You must send me away so I can hide in the field until the third evening from now.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:9 - Jonathan said, "Far be it from you to suggest this! If I were at all aware that my father had decided to harm you, wouldn't I tell you about it?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:10 - David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if your father answers you harshly?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:11 - Jonathan said to David, "Come on. Let's go out to the field." When the two of them had gone out into the field,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - Jonathan said to David, "The LORD God of Israel is my witness. I will feel out my father about this time the day after tomorrow. If he is favorably inclined toward David, will I not then send word to you and let you know?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:18 - Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will be empty.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - However, Saul said nothing about it that day, for he thought, "Something has happened to make him ceremonially unclean. Yes, he must be unclean."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:27 - But the next morning, the second day of the new moon, David's place was still vacant. So Saul said to his son Jonathan, "Why has Jesse's son not come to the meal yesterday or today?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:28 - Jonathan replied to Saul, "David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - He said, 'Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.' For that reason he has not come to the king's table."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:30 - Saul became angry with Jonathan and said to him, "You stupid traitor! Don't I realize that to your own disgrace and to the disgrace of your mother's nakedness you have chosen this son of Jesse?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:36 - He said to his servant, "Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot." As the servant ran, Jonathan shot the arrow beyond him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:37 - When the servant came to the place where Jonathan had shot the arrow, Jonathan called out to the servant, "Isn't the arrow further beyond you?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:40 - Then Jonathan gave his equipment to the servant who was with him. He said to him, "Go, take these things back to the city."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn together in the name of the LORD saying, 'The LORD will be between me and you and between my descendants and your descendants forever.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:1 - (21:2) David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him, "Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - David replied to Ahimelech the priest, "The king instructed me to do something, but he said to me, 'Don't let anyone know the reason I am sending you or the instructions I have given you.' I have told my soldiers to wait at a certain place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:4 - The priest replied to David, "I don't have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:5 - David said to the priest, "Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers' equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:8 - David said to Ahimelech, "Is there no sword or spear here at your disposal? I don't have my own sword or equipment in hand due to the urgency of the king's instructions."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:9 - The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the valley of Elah, is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod. If you wish, take it for yourself. Other than that, there's nothing here." David said, "There's nothing like it! Give it to me!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:14 - Achish said to his servants, "Look at this madman! Why did you bring him to me?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:3 - Then David went from there to Mizpah in Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:5 - Then Gad the prophet said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Go to the land of Judah." So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:7 - Saul said to his servants who were stationed around him, "Listen up, you Benjaminites! Is Jesse's son giving fields and vineyards to all of you? Or is he making all of you commanders and officers?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:9 - But Doeg the Edomite, who had stationed himself with the servants of Saul, replied, "I saw this son of Jesse come to Ahimelech son of Ahitub at Nob.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:12 - Then Saul said, "Listen, son of Ahitub." He replied, "Here I am, my lord."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:13 - Saul said to him, "Why have you conspired against me, you and this son of Jesse? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God on his behalf, so that he opposes me and waits in ambush, as is the case today!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:14 - Ahimelech replied to the king, "Who among all your servants is faithful like David? He is the king's son-in-law, the leader of your bodyguard, and honored in your house!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:16 - But the king said, "You will surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's house!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:17 - Then the king said to the messengers who were stationed beside him, "Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, for they too have sided with David! They knew he was fleeing, but they did not inform me." But the king's servants refused to harm the priests of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:18 - Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and strike down the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:22 - Then David said to Abiathar, "I knew that day when Doeg the Edomite was there that he would certainly tell Saul! I am guilty of all the deaths in your father's house!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:2 - So David asked the LORD, "Should I go and strike down these Philistines?" The LORD said to David, "Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:4 - So David asked the LORD once again. But again the LORD replied, "Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:7 - When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, "God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:9 - When David realized that Saul was planning to harm him, he told Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:10 - Then David said, "O LORD God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is planning to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:11 - Will the leaders of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, please inform your servant!" Then the LORD said, "He will come down."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - He said to him, "Don't be afraid! For the hand of my father Saul cannot find you. You will rule over Israel, and I will be your second in command. Even my father Saul realizes this."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:21 - Saul replied, "May you be blessed by the LORD, for you have had compassion on me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:4 - David's men said to him, "This is the day about which the LORD said to you, 'I will give your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems appropriate to you.'" So David got up and quietly cut off an edge of Saul's robe.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:6 - He said to his men, "May the LORD keep me far away from doing such a thing to my lord, who is the LORD's chosen one, by extending my hand against him. After all, he is the LORD's chosen one."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:9 - David said to Saul, "Why do you pay attention when men say, 'David is seeking to do you harm'?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:16 - When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" Then Saul wept loudly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:17 - He said to David, "You are more innocent than I, for you have treated me well, even though I have tried to harm you!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:5 - he sent ten servants, saying to them, "Go up to Carmel to see Nabal and give him greetings in my name.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - But Nabal responded to David's servants, "Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:13 - Then David instructed his men, "Each of you strap on your sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men followed David up, while two hundred stayed behind with the equipment.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:19 - and said to her servants, "Go on ahead of me. I will come after you." But she did not tell her husband Nabal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:21 - Now David had been thinking, "In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn't take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:24 - Falling at his feet, she said, "My lord, I accept all the guilt! But please let your female servant speak with my lord! Please listen to the words of your servant!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:32 - Then David said to Abigail, "Praised be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:35 - Then David took from her hand what she had brought to him. He said to her, "Go back to your home in peace. Be assured that I have listened to you and responded favorably."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:39 - When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Praised be the LORD who has vindicated me and avenged the insult that I suffered from Nabal! The LORD has kept his servant from doing evil, and he has repaid Nabal for his evil deeds." Then David sent word to Abigail and asked her to become his wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:41 - She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, "Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:6 - David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and Abishai son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, "Who will go down with me to Saul in the camp?" Abishai replied, "I will go down with you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hands. Now let me drive the spear right through him into the ground with one swift jab! A second jab won't be necessary!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:9 - But David said to Abishai, "Don't kill him! Who can extend his hand against the LORD's chosen one and remain guiltless?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:10 - David went on to say, "As the LORD lives, the LORD himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:14 - David called to the army and to Abner son of Ner, "Won't you answer, Abner?" Abner replied, "Who are you, that you have called to the king?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - David said to Abner, "Aren't you a man? After all, who is like you in Israel? Why then haven't you protected your lord the king? One of the soldiers came to kill your lord the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:17 - When Saul recognized David's voice, he said, "Is that your voice, my son David?" David replied, "Yes, it's my voice, my lord the king."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:18 - He went on to say, "Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:21 - Saul replied, "I have sinned. Come back, my son David. I won't harm you, for you treated my life with value this day. I have behaved foolishly and have made a very terrible mistake!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:22 - David replied, "Here is the king's spear! Let one of your servants cross over and get it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:25 - Saul replied to David, "May you be rewarded, my son David! You will without question be successful!" So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - David thought to himself, "One of these days I'm going to be swept away by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me than to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of searching for me through all the territory of Israel and I will escape from his hand."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:5 - David said to Achish, "If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the country towns so that I can live there. Why should your servant settle in the royal city with you?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:10 - When Achish would ask, "Where did you raid today?" David would say, "The Negev of Judah" or "The Negev of Jeharmeel" or "The Negev of the Kenites."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:1 - In those days the Philistines gathered their troops for war in order to fight Israel. Achish said to David, "You should fully understand that you and your men must go with me into the battle."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:2 - David replied to Achish, "That being the case, you will come to know what your servant can do!" Achish said to David, "Then I will make you my bodyguard from now on."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:7 - So Saul instructed his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her." His servants replied to him, "There is a woman who is a medium in Endor."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:8 - So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing and left, accompanied by two of his men. They came to the woman at night and said, "Use your ritual pit to conjure up for me the one I tell you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:9 - But the woman said to him, "Look, you are aware of what Saul has done; he has removed the mediums and magicians from the land! Why are you trapping me so you can put me to death?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:11 - The woman replied, "Who is it that I should bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up for me Samuel."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:12 - When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly. The woman said to Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:13 - The king said to her, "Don't be afraid! What have you seen?" The woman replied to Saul, "I have seen one like a god coming up from the ground!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:14 - He said to her, "What about his appearance?" She said, "An old man is coming up! He is wrapped in a robe!" Then Saul realized it was Samuel, and he bowed his face toward the ground and kneeled down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul replied, "I am terribly troubled! The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He does not answer me - not by the prophets nor by dreams. So I have called on you to tell me what I should do."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:16 - Samuel said, "Why are you asking me, now that the LORD has turned away from you and has become your enemy?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:21 - When the woman came to Saul and saw how terrified he was, she said to him, "Your servant has done what you asked. I took my life into my own hands and did what you told me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:3 - The leaders of the Philistines asked, "What about these Hebrews?" Achish said to the leaders of the Philistines, "Isn't this David, the servant of King Saul of Israel, who has been with me for quite some time? I have found no fault with him from the day of his defection until the present time!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:6 - So Achish summoned David and said to him, "As surely as the LORD lives, you are an honest man, and I am glad to have you serving with me in the army. I have found no fault with you from the day that you first came to me until the present time. But in the opinion of the leaders, you are not reliable.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:8 - But David said to Achish, "What have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day that I first came into your presence until the present time, that I shouldn't go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:6 - David was very upset, for the men were thinking of stoning him; each man grieved bitterly over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the LORD his God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:7 - Then David said to the priest Abiathar son of Ahimelech, "Bring me the ephod." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:8 - David inquired of the LORD, saying, "Should I pursue this raiding band? Will I overtake them?" He said to him, "Pursue, for you will certainly overtake them and carry out a rescue!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:13 - David said to him, "To whom do you belong, and where are you from?" The young man said, "I am an Egyptian, the servant of an Amalekite man. My master abandoned me when I was ill for three days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:15 - David said to him, "Can you take us down to this raiding party?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or hand me over to my master, and I will take you down to this raiding party."
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:23 - But David said, "No! You shouldn't do this, my brothers. Look at what the LORD has given us! He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:4 - Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and stab me with it! Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come, stab me, and torture me." But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:3 - David asked him, "Where are you coming from?" He replied, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:4 - David inquired, "How were things going? Tell me!" He replied, "The people fled from the battle and many of them fell dead. Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:5 - David said to the young man who was telling him this, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - The young man who was telling him this said, "I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:9 - He said to me, 'Stand over me and finish me off! I'm very dizzy, even though I'm still alive.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - David said to the young man who told this to him, "Where are you from?" He replied, "I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:14 - David replied to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:15 - Then David called one of the soldiers and said, "Come here and strike him down!" So he struck him down, and he died.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:16 - David said to him, "Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying 'I have put the LORD's anointed to death.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - (He gave instructions that the people of Judah should be taught "The Bow." Indeed, it is written down in the Book of Yashar.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 - Afterward David inquired of the LORD, "Should I go up to one of the cities of Judah?" The LORD told him, "Go up." David asked, "Where should I go?" The LORD replied, "To Hebron."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:5 - So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh Gilead and told them, "May you be blessed by the LORD because you have shown this kindness to your lord Saul by burying him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:14 - Abner said to Joab, "Let the soldiers get up and fight before us." Joab said, "So be it!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:20 - Then Abner turned and asked, "Is that you, Asahel?" He replied, "Yes it is!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:21 - Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left. Capture one of the soldiers and take his equipment for yourself!" But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:26 - Then Abner called out to Joab, "Must the sword devour forever? Don't you realize that this will turn bitter in the end? When will you tell the people to turn aside from pursuing their brothers?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:27 - Joab replied, "As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit of their brothers!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:7 - Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah. Ish-bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you have sexual relations with my father's concubine?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - These words of Ish-bosheth really angered Abner and he said, "Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah? This very day I am demonstrating loyalty to the house of Saul your father and to his relatives and his friends! I have not betrayed you into the hand of David. Yet you have accused me of sinning with this woman today!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:13 - So David said, "Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul's daughter Michal when you come to visit me."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:16 - Her husband went along behind her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Finally Abner said to him, "Go back!" So he returned home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:17 - Abner advised the elders of Israel, "Previously you were wanting David to be your king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:21 - Abner said to David, "Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire." So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:24 - So Joab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he's gone on his way!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:28 - When David later heard about this, he said, "I and my kingdom are forever innocent before the LORD of the shed blood of Abner son of Ner!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!" Now King David followed behind the funeral bier.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:33 - The king chanted the following lament for Abner: "Should Abner have died like a fool?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:38 - Then the king said to his servants, "Do you not realize that a great leader has fallen this day in Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:9 - David replied to Recab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, "As surely as the LORD lives, who has delivered my life from all adversity,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:2 - In the past, when Saul was our king, you were the real leader in Israel. The LORD said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over Israel.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - David said on that day, "Whoever attacks the Jebusites must approach the 'lame' and the 'blind' who are David's enemies by going through the water tunnel." For this reason it is said, "The blind and the lame cannot enter the palace."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:19 - So David asked the LORD, "Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?" The LORD said to David, "March up, for I will indeed hand the Philistines over to you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said, "The LORD has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out." So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:23 - So David asked the LORD what he should do. This time the LORD said to him, "Don't march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to meet him. She said, "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants' slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - David replied to Michal, "It was before the LORD! I was celebrating before the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD's people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:2 - The king said to Nathan the prophet, "Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:3 - Nathan replied to the king, "You should go and do whatever you have in mind, for the LORD is with you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:18 - King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:1 - Then David asked, "Is anyone still left from the family of Saul, so that I may extend kindness to him for the sake of Jonathan?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:2 - Now there was a servant from Saul's house named Ziba, so he was summoned to David. The king asked him, "Are you Ziba?" He replied, "At your service."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:3 - The king asked, "Is there not someone left from Saul's family, that I may extend God's kindness to him?" Ziba said to the king, "One of Jonathan's sons is left; both of his feet are crippled."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:4 - The king asked him, "Where is he?" Ziba told the king, "He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:6 - When Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed low with his face toward the ground. David said, "Mephibosheth?" He replied, "Yes, at your service."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - David said to him, "Don't be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. You will be a regular guest at my table."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:8 - Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, "Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:9 - Then the king summoned Ziba, Saul's attendant, and said to him, "Everything that belonged to Saul and to his entire house I hereby give to your master's grandson.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:11 - Ziba said to the king, "Your servant will do everything that my lord the king has instructed his servant to do." So Mephibosheth was a regular guest at David's table, just as though he were one of the king's sons.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:2 - David said, "I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash just as his father was loyal to me." So David sent his servants with a message expressing sympathy over his father's death. When David's servants entered the land of the Ammonites,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - Messengers told David what had happened, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Joab said, "If the Arameans start to overpower me, you come to my rescue. If the Ammonites start to overpower you, I will come to your rescue.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:3 - So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said, "Isn't this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:5 - The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, "I'm pregnant."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:8 - Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your home and relax." When Uriah left the palace, the king sent a gift to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:10 - So they informed David, "Uriah has not gone down to his house." So David said to Uriah, "Haven't you just arrived from a journey? Why haven't you gone down to your house?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah replied to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah reside in temporary shelters, and my lord Joab and my lord's soldiers are camping in the open field. Should I go to my house to eat and drink and have marital relations with my wife? As surely as you are alive, I will not do this thing!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:12 - So David said to Uriah, "Stay here another day. Tomorrow I will send you back." So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem both that day and the following one.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:22 - So the messenger departed. When he arrived, he informed David of all the news that Joab had sent with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:23 - The messenger said to David, "The men overpowered us and attacked us in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way to the door of the city gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:25 - David said to the messenger, "Tell Joab, 'Don't let this thing upset you. There is no way to anticipate whom the sword will cut down. Press the battle against the city and conquer it.' Encourage him with these words."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:1 - So the LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to David, Nathan said, "There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:5 - Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:7 - Nathan said to David, "You are that man! This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'I chose you to be king over Israel and I rescued you from the hand of Saul.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:13 - Then David exclaimed to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD!" Nathan replied to David, "Yes, and the LORD has forgiven your sin. You are not going to die.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:19 - When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he realized that the child was dead. So David asked his servants, "Is the child dead?" They replied, "Yes, he's dead."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - He replied, "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, 'Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:27 - Joab then sent messengers to David, saying, "I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:4 - He asked Amnon, "Why are you, the king's son, so depressed every morning? Can't you tell me?" So Amnon said to him, "I'm in love with Tamar the sister of my brother Absalom."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:5 - Jonadab replied to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick. When your father comes in to see you, say to him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can fix some food for me. Let her prepare the food in my sight so I can watch. Then I will eat from her hand.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:6 - So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came in to see him, Amnon said to the king, "Please let my sister Tamar come in so she can make a couple of cakes in my sight. Then I will eat from her hand."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:9 - But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, "Get everyone out of here!" So everyone left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:10 - Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand." So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:11 - As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, "Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:12 - But she said to him, "No, my brother! Don't humiliate me! This just isn't done in Israel! Don't do this foolish thing!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:15 - Then Amnon greatly despised her. His disdain toward her surpassed the love he had previously felt toward her. Amnon said to her, "Get up and leave!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - But she said to him, "No I won't, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!" But he refused to listen to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He called his personal attendant and said to him, "Take this woman out of my sight and lock the door behind her!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:20 - Her brother Absalom said to her, "Was Amnon your brother with you? Now be quiet, my sister. He is your brother. Don't take it so seriously!" Tamar, devastated, lived in the house of her brother Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:24 - Then Absalom went to the king and said, "My shearers have begun their work. Let the king and his servants go with me."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:25 - But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son. We shouldn't all go. We shouldn't burden you in that way." Though Absalom pressed him, the king was not willing to go. Instead, David blessed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:26 - Then Absalom said, "If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us." The king replied to him, "Why should he go with you?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:32 - Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shimeah, said, "My lord should not say, 'They have killed all the young men who are the king's sons.' For only Amnon is dead. This is what Absalom has talked about from the day that Amnon humiliated his sister Tamar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:34 - In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west on a road beside the hill.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:35 - Jonadab said to the king, "Look! The king's sons have come! It's just as I said!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:2 - So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He told her, "Pretend to be in mourning and put on garments for mourning. Don't anoint yourself with oil. Instead, act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for some time.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:4 - So the Tekoan woman went to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, "Please help me, O king!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:5 - The king replied to her, "What do you want?" She answered, "I am a widow; my husband is dead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:8 - Then the king told the woman, "Go to your home. I will give instructions concerning your situation."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:9 - The Tekoan woman said to the king, "My lord the king, let any blame fall on me and on the house of my father. But let the king and his throne be innocent!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king said, "Bring to me whoever speaks to you, and he won't bother you again!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She replied, "In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!" He replied, "As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:12 - Then the woman said, "Please permit your servant to speak to my lord the king about another matter." He replied, "Tell me."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:13 - The woman said, "Why have you devised something like this against God's people? When the king speaks in this fashion, he makes himself guilty, for the king has not brought back the one he has banished.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:17 - So your servant said, 'May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the LORD your God be with you!'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:18 - Then the king replied to the woman, "Don't hide any information from me when I question you." The woman said, "Let my lord the king speak!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:19 - The king said, "Did Joab put you up to all of this?" The woman answered, "As surely as you live, my lord the king, there is no deviation to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has said. For your servant Joab gave me instructions. He has put all these words in your servant's mouth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:21 - Then the king said to Joab, "All right! I will do this thing! Go and bring back the young man Absalom!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:22 - Then Joab bowed down with his face toward the ground and thanked the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord the king, because the king has granted the request of your servant!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:24 - But the king said, "Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face." So Absalom went over to his own house; he did not see the king's face.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - So he said to his servants, "Look, Joab has a portion of field adjacent to mine and he has some barley there. Go and set it on fire." So Absalom's servants set Joab's portion of the field on fire.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Joab got up and came to Absalom's house. He said to him, "Why did your servants set my portion of field on fire?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:32 - Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I sent a message to you saying, 'Come here so that I can send you to the king with this message: "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there."' Let me now see the face of the king. If I am at fault, let him put me to death!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:2 - Now Absalom used to get up early and stand beside the road that led to the city gate. Whenever anyone came by who had a complaint to bring to the king for arbitration, Absalom would call out to him, "What city are you from?" The person would answer, "I, your servant, am from one of the tribes of Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:3 - Absalom would then say to him, "Look, your claims are legitimate and appropriate. But there is no representative of the king who will listen to you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:4 - Absalom would then say, "If only they would make me a judge in the land! Then everyone who had a judicial complaint could come to me and I would make sure he receives a just settlement."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:7 - After four years Absalom said to the king, "Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the LORD while I was in Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:9 - The king replied to him, "Go in peace." So Absalom got up and went to Hebron.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:14 - So David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, "Come on! Let's escape! Otherwise no one will be delivered from Absalom! Go immediately, or else he will quickly overtake us and bring disaster on us and kill the city's residents with the sword."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:21 - But Ittai replied to the king, "As surely as the LORD lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether dead or alive, there I will be as well!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:22 - So David said to Ittai, "Come along then." So Ittai the Gittite went along, accompanied by all his men and all the dependents who were with him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:25 - Then the king said to Zadok, "Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the LORD's sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:27 - The king said to Zadok the priest, "Are you a seer? Go back to the city in peace! Your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar's son Jonathan may go with you and Abiathar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:31 - Now David had been told, "Ahithophel has sided with the conspirators who are with Absalom. So David prayed, "Make the advice of Ahithophel foolish, O LORD!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:33 - David said to him, "If you leave with me you will be a burden to me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:2 - The king asked Ziba, "Why did you bring these things?" Ziba replied, "The donkeys are for the king's family to ride on, the loaves of bread and the summer fruit are for the attendants to eat, and the wine is for those who get exhausted in the desert."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:3 - The king asked, "Where is your master's grandson?" Ziba replied to the king, "He remains in Jerusalem, for he said, 'Today the house of Israel will give back to me my grandfather's kingdom.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:4 - The king said to Ziba, "Everything that was Mephibosheth's now belongs to you." Ziba replied, "I bow before you. May I find favor in your sight, my lord the king."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:9 - Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over and cut off his head!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:10 - But the king said, "What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David!', who can say to him, 'Why have you done this?'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:11 - Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "My own son, my very own flesh and blood, is trying to take my life. So also now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone so that he can curse, for the LORD has spoken to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:16 - When David's friend Hushai the Arkite came to Absalom, Hushai said to him, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:17 - Absalom said to Hushai, "Do you call this loyalty to your friend? Why didn't you go with your friend?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:18 - Hushai replied to Absalom, "No, I will be loyal to the one whom the LORD, these people, and all the men of Israel have chosen.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:20 - Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give us your advice. What should we do?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:21 - Ahithophel replied to Absalom, "Have sex with your father's concubines whom he left to care for the palace. All Israel will hear that you have made yourself repulsive to your father. Then your followers will be motivated to support you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:1 - Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Let me pick out twelve thousand men. Then I will go and pursue David this very night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:5 - But Absalom said, "Call for Hushai the Arkite, and let's hear what he has to say."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:6 - So Hushai came to Absalom. Absalom said to him, "Here is what Ahithophel has advised. Should we follow his advice? If not, what would you recommend?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:7 - Hushai replied to Absalom, "Ahithophel's advice is not sound this time."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Hushai went on to say, "You know your father and his men - they are soldiers and are as dangerous as a bear out in the wild that has been robbed of her cubs. Your father is an experienced soldier; he will not stay overnight with the army.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite sounds better than the advice of Ahithophel." Now the LORD had decided to frustrate the sound advice of Ahithophel, so that the LORD could bring disaster on Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:15 - Then Hushai reported to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Here is what Ahithophel has advised Absalom and the leaders of Israel to do, and here is what I have advised.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:20 - When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" The woman replied to them, "They crossed over the stream." Absalom's men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:2 - David then sent out the army - a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab's brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, "I too will indeed march out with you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:4 - Then the king said to them, "I will do whatever seems best to you." So the king stayed beside the city gate, while all the army marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - When one of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, "I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:11 - Joab replied to the man who was telling him this, "What! You saw this? Why didn't you strike him down right on the spot? I would have given you ten pieces of silver and a commemorative belt!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:12 - The man replied to Joab, "Even if I were receiving a thousand pieces of silver, I would not strike the king's son! In our very presence the king gave this order to you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:14 - Joab replied, "I will not wait around like this for you!" He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:18 - Prior to this Absalom had set up a monument and dedicated it to himself in the King's Valley, reasoning "I have no son who will carry on my name." He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom's Memorial.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:19 - Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Let me run and give the king the good news that the LORD has vindicated him before his enemies."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:20 - But Joab said to him, "You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, for the king's son is dead."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:21 - Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go and tell the king what you have seen." After bowing to Joab, the Cushite ran off.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:22 - Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again spoke to Joab, "Whatever happens, let me go after the Cushite." But Joab said, "Why is it that you want to go, my son? You have no good news that will bring you a reward."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:23 - But he said, "Whatever happens, I want to go!" So Joab said to him, "Then go!" So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said, "If he is by himself, he brings good news." The runner came ever closer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:26 - Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper, "There is another man running by himself." The king said, "This one also is bringing good news."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:27 - The watchman said, "It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz son of Zadok." The king said, "He is a good man, and he comes with good news."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:28 - Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king, "Greetings!" He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said, "May the LORD your God be praised because he has defeated the men who opposed my lord the king!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:29 - The king replied, "How is the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz replied, "I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king's servant and me, your servant, but I don't know what it was all about."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:30 - The king said, "Turn aside and take your place here." So he turned aside and waited.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:31 - Then the Cushite arrived and said, "May my lord the king now receive the good news! The LORD has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:32 - The king asked the Cushite, "How is the young man Absalom?" The Cushite replied, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who have plotted against you be like that young man!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:33 - (19:1) The king then became very upset. He went up to the upper room over the gate and wept. As he went he said, "My son, Absalom! My son, my son, Absalom! If only I could have died in your place! Absalom, my son, my son!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:5 - So Joab visited the king at his home. He said, "Today you have embarrassed all your servants who have saved your life this day, as well as the lives of your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your concubines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:19 - He said to the king, "Don't think badly of me, my lord, and don't recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king, left Jerusalem! Please don't call it to mind!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:21 - Abishai son of Zeruiah replied, "For this should not Shimei be put to death? After all, he cursed the LORD's anointed!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:22 - But David said, "What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don't you realize that today I am king over Israel?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:23 - The king said to Shimei, "You won't die." The king vowed an oath concerning this.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:25 - When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, "Why didn't you go with me, Mephibosheth?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:26 - He replied, "My lord the king, my servant deceived me! I said, 'Let me get my donkey saddled so that I can ride on it and go with the king,' for I am lame.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - Then the king replied to him, "Why should you continue speaking like this? You and Ziba will inherit the field together."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:30 - Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him have the whole thing! My lord the king has returned safely to his house!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:33 - So the king said to Barzillai, "Cross over with me, and I will take care of you while you are with me in Jerusalem."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:34 - Barzillai replied to the king, "How many days do I have left to my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:38 - The king replied, "Kimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever I deem appropriate. And whatever you choose, I will do for you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - The men of Israel replied to the men of Judah, "We have ten shares in the king, and we have a greater claim on David than you do! Why do you want to curse us? Weren't we the first to suggest bringing back our king?" But the comments of the men of Judah were more severe than those of the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:1 - Now a wicked man named Sheba son of Bicri, a Benjaminite, happened to be there. He blew the trumpet and said, "We have no share in David; we have no inheritance in this son of Jesse! Every man go home, O Israel!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 - Then the king said to Amasa, "Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, and you be present here with them too."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord's servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure fortified cities for himself and get away from us."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:9 - Joab said to Amasa, "How are you, my brother?" With his right hand Joab took hold of Amasa's beard as if to greet him with a kiss.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:11 - One of Joab's soldiers who stood over Amasa said, "Whoever is for Joab and whoever is for David, follow Joab!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - a wise woman called out from the city, "Listen up! Listen up! Tell Joab, 'Come near so that I may speak to you.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:17 - When he approached her, the woman asked, "Are you Joab?" He replied, "I am." She said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." He said, "Go ahead. I'm listening."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:18 - She said, "In the past they would always say, 'Let them inquire in Abel,' and that is how they settled things.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:20 - Joab answered, "Get serious! I don't want to swallow up or destroy anything!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:21 - That's not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city." The woman said to Joab, "This very minute his head will be thrown over the wall to you!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:1 - During David's reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the LORD. The LORD said, "It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king summoned the Gibeonites and spoke with them. (Now the Gibeonites were not descendants of Israel; they were a remnant of the Amorites. The Israelites had made a promise to them, but Saul tried to kill them because of his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:3 - David said to the Gibeonites, "What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless the LORD's inheritance?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:4 - The Gibeonites said to him, "We have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel." David asked, "What then are you asking me to do for you?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:6 - let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, who was the LORD's chosen one." The king replied, "I will turn them over."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:2 - He said: "The LORD is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:15 - David was thirsty and said, "How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the gate!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:17 - and said, "O LORD, I will not do this! It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going." So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:2 - The king told Joab, the general in command of his army, "Go through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba and muster the army, so I may know the size of the army."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:3 - Joab replied to the king, "May the LORD your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:10 - David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:13 - Gad went to David and told him, "Shall seven years of famine come upon your land? Or shall you flee for three months from your enemy with him in hot pursuit? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now decide what I should tell the one who sent me."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:14 - David said to Gad, "I am very upset! I prefer that we be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is great; I do not want to be attacked by men!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - When the angel extended his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was killing the people, "That's enough! Stop now!" (Now the LORD's angel was near the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.)
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:17 - When he saw the angel who was destroying the people, David said to the LORD, "Look, it is I who have sinned and done this evil thing! As for these sheep - what have they done? Attack me and my family."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:18 - So Gad went to David that day and told him, "Go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:21 - Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David replied, "To buy from you the threshing floor so I can build an altar for the LORD, so that the plague may be removed from the people."
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:22 - Araunah told David, "My lord the king may take whatever he wishes and offer it. Look! Here are oxen for burnt offerings, and threshing sledges and harnesses for wood.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:23 - I, the servant of my lord the king, give it all to the king!" Araunah also told the king, "May the LORD your God show you favor!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:24 - But the king said to Araunah, "No, I insist on buying it from you! I will not offer to the LORD my God burnt sacrifices that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty pieces of silver.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:11 - Nathan said to Bathsheba, Solomon's mother, "Has it been reported to you that Haggith's son Adonijah has become king behind our master David's back?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:16 - Bathsheba bowed down on the floor before the king. The king said, "What do you want?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:17 - She replied to him, "My master, you swore an oath to your servant by the LORD your God, 'Solomon your son will be king after me and he will sit on my throne.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:24 - Nathan said, "My master, O king, did you announce, 'Adonijah will be king after me; he will sit on my throne'?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:28 - King David responded, "Summon Bathsheba!" She came and stood before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:29 - The king swore an oath: "As certainly as the LORD lives (he who has rescued me from every danger),
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:31 - Bathsheba bowed down to the king with her face to the floor and said, "May my master, King David, live forever!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:32 - King David said, "Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada." They came before the king,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:33 - and he told them, "Take your master's servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:36 - Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded to the king: "So be it! May the LORD God of my master the king confirm it!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:39 - Zadok the priest took a horn filled with olive oil from the tent and poured it on Solomon; the trumpet was blown and all the people declared, "Long live King Solomon!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:41 - Now Adonijah and all his guests heard the commotion just as they had finished eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he asked, "Why is there such a noisy commotion in the city?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:42 - As he was still speaking, Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest arrived. Adonijah said, "Come in, for an important man like you must be bringing good news."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:43 - Jonathan replied to Adonijah: "No! Our master King David has made Solomon king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - and said this: 'The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because today he has placed a successor on my throne and allowed me to see it.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:52 - Solomon said, "If he is a loyal subject, not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, he will die."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:53 - King Solomon sent men to bring him down from the altar. He came and bowed down to King Solomon, and Solomon told him, "Go home."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:13 - Haggith's son Adonijah visited Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. She asked, "Do you come in peace?" He answered, "Yes."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:14 - He added, "I have something to say to you." She replied, "Speak."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:15 - He said, "You know that the kingdom was mine and all Israel considered me king. But then the kingdom was given to my brother, for the LORD decided it should be his.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:16 - Now I'd like to ask you for just one thing. Please don't refuse me." She said, "Go ahead and ask."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:17 - He said, "Please ask King Solomon if he would give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife, for he won't refuse you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:18 - Bathsheba replied, "That's fine, I'll speak to the king on your behalf."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - She said, "I would like to ask you for just one small favor. Please don't refuse me." He said, "Go ahead and ask, my mother, for I would not refuse you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:21 - She said, "Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - King Solomon answered his mother, "Why just request Abishag the Shunammite for him? Since he is my older brother, you should also request the kingdom for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - The king then told Abiathar the priest, "Go back to your property in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but today I will not kill you because you did carry the ark of the sovereign LORD before my father David and you suffered with my father through all his difficult times."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:29 - When King Solomon heard that Joab had run to the tent of the LORD and was right there beside the altar, he ordered Benaiah son of Jehoiada, "Go, strike him down."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:30 - When Benaiah arrived at the tent of the LORD, he said to him, "The king says, 'Come out!'" But he replied, "No, I will die here!" So Benaiah sent word to the king and reported Joab's reply.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:31 - The king told him, "Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father's family the guilt of Joab's murderous, bloody deeds.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:36 - Next the king summoned Shimei and told him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there - but you may not leave there to go anywhere!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:38 - Shimei said to the king, "My master the king's proposal is acceptable. Your servant will do as you say." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for a long time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:42 - the king summoned Shimei and said to him, "You will recall that I made you take an oath by the LORD, and I solemnly warned you, 'If you ever leave and go anywhere, know for sure that you will certainly die.' You said to me, 'The proposal is acceptable; I agree to it.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:44 - Then the king said to Shimei, "You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The LORD will punish you for what you did.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5 - One night in Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, "Tell me what I should give you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:6 - Solomon replied, "You demonstrated great loyalty to your servant, my father David, as he served you faithfully, properly, and sincerely. You have maintained this great loyalty to this day by allowing his son to sit on his throne.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:11 - God said to him, "Because you asked for the ability to make wise judicial decisions, and not for long life, or riches, or vengeance on your enemies,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:17 - One of the women said, "My master, this woman and I live in the same house. I had a baby while she was with me in the house.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:22 - The other woman said, "No! My son is alive; your son is dead!" But the first woman replied, "No, your son is dead; my son is alive." Each presented her case before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:23 - The king said, "One says, 'My son is alive; your son is dead,' while the other says, 'No, your son is dead; my son is alive.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:24 - The king ordered, "Get me a sword!" So they placed a sword before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:25 - The king then said, "Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:26 - The real mother spoke up to the king, for her motherly instincts were aroused. She said, "My master, give her the living child! Whatever you do, don't kill him!" But the other woman said, "Neither one of us will have him! Let them cut him in two!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:27 - The king responded, "Give the first woman the living child; don't kill him. She is the mother."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:7 - When Hiram heard Solomon's message, he was very happy. He said, "The LORD is worthy of praise today because he has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - He said, "The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:18 - The LORD told my father David, 'It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - He prayed: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven above or on earth below! You maintain covenantal loyalty to your servants who obey you with sincerity.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O sovereign LORD, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:3 - The LORD said to him, "I have answered your prayer and your request for help that you made to me. I have consecrated this temple you built by making it my permanent home; I will be constantly present there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:13 - Hiram asked, "Why did you give me these cities, my friend?" He called that area the region of Cabul, a name which it has retained to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:6 - She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:11 - So the LORD said to Solomon, "Because you insist on doing these things and have not kept the covenantal rules I gave you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:21 - While in Egypt Hadad heard that David had passed away and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead. So Hadad asked Pharaoh, "Give me permission to leave so I can return to my homeland."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:22 - Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack here that makes you want to go to your homeland?" Hadad replied, "Nothing, but please give me permission to leave."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:31 - Then he told Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces, for this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon's hand and I will give ten tribes to you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:5 - He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, 'Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26 - Jeroboam then thought to himself: "Now the Davidic dynasty could regain the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:28 - After the king had consulted with his advisers, he made two golden calves. Then he said to the people, "It is too much trouble for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look, Israel, here are your gods who brought you up from the land of Egypt."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:2 - With the authority of the LORD he cried out against the altar, "O altar, altar! This is what the LORD says, 'Look, a son named Josiah will be born to the Davidic dynasty. He will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who offer sacrifices on you. Human bones will be burned on you.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:6 - The king pled with the prophet, "Seek the favor of the LORD your God and pray for me, so that my hand may be restored." So the prophet sought the LORD's favor and the king's hand was restored to its former condition.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:8 - But the prophet said to the king, "Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I could not go with you and eat and drink in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:13 - He then told his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." When they had saddled the donkey for him, he mounted it
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:14 - and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, "Are you the prophet from Judah?" He answered, "Yes, I am."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:15 - He then said to him, "Come home with me and eat something."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:16 - But he replied, "I can't go back with you or eat and drink with you in this place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:18 - The old prophet then said, "I too am a prophet like you. An angel told me with the LORD's authority, 'Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat and drink.'" But he was lying to him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, "This is what the LORD says, 'You have rebelled against the LORD and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:26 - When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news, he said, "It is the prophet who rebelled against the LORD. The LORD delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up and killed him, just as the LORD warned him."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - After he buried him, he said to his sons, "When I die, bury me in the tomb where the prophet is buried; put my bones right beside his bones,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:28 - Omri passed away and was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab replaced him as king.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives (whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:10 - So he got up and went to Zarephath. When he went through the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. He called out to her, "Please give me a cup of water, so I can take a drink."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:11 - As she went to get it, he called out to her, "Please bring me a piece of bread."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:12 - She said, "As certainly as the LORD your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you planned. But first make a small cake for me and bring it to me; then make something for yourself and your son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:18 - She asked Elijah, "Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:19 - He said to her, "Hand me your son." He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him down on his bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - Then he called out to the LORD, "O LORD, my God, are you also bringing disaster on this widow I am staying with by killing her son?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the LORD, "O LORD, my God, please let this boy's breath return to him."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, "See, your son is alive!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - The woman said to Elijah, "Now I know that you are a prophet and that the LORD really does speak through you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:5 - Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:7 - As Obadiah was traveling along, Elijah met him. When he recognized him, he fell facedown to the ground and said, "Is it really you, my master, Elijah?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:8 - He replied, "Yes, go and say to your master, 'Elijah is back.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:9 - Obadiah said, "What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:15 - But Elijah said, "As certainly as the LORD WHO RULES OVER ALL lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:17 - When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:18 - Elijah replied, "I have not brought disaster on Israel. But you and your father's dynasty have, by abandoning the LORD's commandments and following the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:21 - Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long are you going to be paralyzed by indecision? If the LORD is the true God, then follow him, but if Baal is, follow him!" But the people did not say a word.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:22 - Elijah said to them: "I am the only prophet of the LORD who is left, but there are 450 prophets of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 - Elijah told the prophets of Baal, "Choose one of the bulls for yourselves and go first, for you are the majority. Invoke the name of your god, but do not light a fire."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:27 - At noon Elijah mocked them, "Yell louder! After all, he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or perhaps he stepped out for a moment or has taken a trip. Perhaps he is sleeping and needs to be awakened."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:30 - Elijah then told all the people, "Approach me." So all the people approached him. He repaired the altar of the LORD that had been torn down.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:34 - Then he said, "Fill four water jars and pour the water on the offering and the wood." When they had done so, he said, "Do it again." So they did it again. Then he said, "Do it a third time." So they did it a third time.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:36 - When it was time for the evening offering, Elijah the prophet approached the altar and prayed: "O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, prove today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:40 - Elijah told them, "Seize the prophets of Baal! Don't let even one of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley and executed them there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:41 - Then Elijah told Ahab, "Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:43 - He told his servant, "Go on up and look in the direction of the sea." So he went on up, looked, and reported, "There is nothing." Seven times Elijah sent him to look.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - The seventh time the servant said, "Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man's hand, is rising up from the sea." Elijah then said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won't overtake you.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:2 - Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah with this warning, "May the gods judge me severely if by this time tomorrow I do not take your life as you did theirs!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the LORD to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O LORD, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:5 - He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, "Get up and eat."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - The LORD's angelic messenger came back again, touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, for otherwise you won't be able to make the journey."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:9 - He went into a cave there and spent the night. All of a sudden the LORD spoke to him, "Why are you here, Elijah?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:10 - He answered, "I have been absolutely loyal to the LORD, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:11 - The LORD said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Look, the LORD is ready to pass by." A very powerful wind went before the LORD, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:13 - When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden a voice asked him, "Why are you here, Elijah?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:14 - He answered, "I have been absolutely loyal to the LORD, the sovereign God, even though the Israelites have abandoned the agreement they made with you, torn down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left and now they want to take my life."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:15 - The LORD said to him, "Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:20 - He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you." Elijah said to him, "Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:3 - He said to him, "This is what Ben Hadad says, 'Your silver and your gold are mine, as well as the best of your wives and sons.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:4 - The king of Israel replied, "It is just as you say, my master, O king. I and all I own belong to you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:7 - The king of Israel summoned all the leaders of the land and said, "Notice how this man is looking for trouble. Indeed, he demanded my wives, sons, silver, and gold, and I did not resist him."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:9 - So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad, "Say this to my master, the king, 'I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.'" So the messengers went back and gave their report.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:11 - The king of Israel replied, "Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:12 - When Ben Hadad received this reply, he and the other kings were drinking in their quarters. He ordered his servants, "Get ready to attack!" So they got ready to attack the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:13 - Now a prophet visited King Ahab of Israel and said, "This is what the LORD says, 'Do you see this huge army? Look, I am going to hand it over to you this very day. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:14 - Ahab asked, "By whom will this be accomplished?" He answered, "This is what the LORD says, 'By the servants of the district governors.'" Ahab asked, "Who will launch the attack?" He answered, "You will."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:18 - He ordered, "Whether they come in peace or to do battle, take them alive."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:22 - The prophet visited the king of Israel and instructed him, "Go, fortify your defenses. Determine what you must do, for in the spring the king of Syria will attack you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:28 - The prophet visited the king of Israel and said, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Syrians said, "The LORD is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys," I will hand over to you this entire huge army. Then you will know that I am the LORD.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:31 - His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:32 - So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live!'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:33 - The men took this as a good omen and quickly accepted his offer, saying, "Ben Hadad is your brother." Ahab then said, "Go, get him." So Ben Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up into his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - Ben Hadad said, "I will return the cities my father took from your father. You may set up markets in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria." Ahab then said, "I want to make a treaty with you before I dismiss you." So he made a treaty with him and then dismissed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:35 - One of the members of the prophetic guild, speaking with divine authority, ordered his companion, "Wound me!" But the man refused to wound him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:36 - So the prophet said to him, "Because you have disobeyed the LORD, as soon as you leave me a lion will kill you." When he left him, a lion attacked and killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:37 - He found another man and said, "Wound me!" So the man wounded him severely.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:39 - When the king passed by, he called out to the king, "Your servant went out into the heat of the battle, and then a man turned aside and brought me a prisoner. He told me, 'Guard this prisoner. If he ends up missing for any reason, you will pay with your life or with a talent of silver.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:40 - Well, it just so happened that while your servant was doing this and that, he disappeared." The king of Israel said to him, "Your punishment is already determined by your own testimony."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:42 - The prophet then said to him, "This is what the LORD says, 'Because you released a man I had determined should die, you will pay with your life and your people will suffer instead of his people.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:3 - But Naboth replied to Ahab, "The LORD forbid that I should sell you my ancestral inheritance."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:6 - He answered her, "While I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, I said to him, 'Sell me your vineyard for silver, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard in its place.' But he said, 'I will not sell you my vineyard.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - His wife Jezebel said to him, "You are the king of Israel! Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:15 - When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, "Get up, take possession of the vineyard Naboth the Jezreelite refused to sell you for silver, for Naboth is no longer alive; he's dead."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:17 - The LORD told Elijah the Tishbite:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:20 - When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, "So, you have found me, my enemy!" Elijah replied, "I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:28 - The LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:3 - The king of Israel said to his servants, "Surely you recognize that Ramoth Gilead belongs to us, though we are hesitant to reclaim it from the king of Syria."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:4 - Then he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I will support you; my army and horses are at your disposal."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:5 - Then Jehoshaphat added, "First seek an oracle from the LORD."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:6 - So the king of Israel assembled about four hundred prophets and asked them, "Should I attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" They said, "Attack! The sovereign one will hand it over to the king."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:7 - But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD still here, that we may ask him?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:8 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD's will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say such things."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:9 - The king of Israel summoned an official and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:11 - Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, "This is what the LORD says, 'With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:14 - But Micaiah said, "As certainly as the LORD lives, I will say what the LORD tells me to say."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:15 - When he came before the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" He answered him, "Attack! You will succeed; the LORD will hand it over to the king."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:16 - The king said to him, "How many times must I make you solemnly promise in the name of the LORD to tell me only the truth?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:17 - Micaiah said, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the LORD said, 'They have no master. They should go home in peace.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:18 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:19 - Micaiah said, "That being the case, hear the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:20 - The LORD said, 'Who will deceive Ahab, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?' One said this and another that.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:21 - Then a spirit stepped forward and stood before the LORD. He said, 'I will deceive him.' The LORD asked him, 'How?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:22 - He replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.' The LORD said, 'Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:24 - Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, "Which way did the LORD's spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:25 - Micaiah replied, "Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:26 - Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king's son.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:28 - Micaiah said, "If you really do safely return, then the LORD has not spoken through me." Then he added, "Take note, all you people."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:30 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and then enter into the battle; but you wear your royal robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself and then entered into the battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 - Now an archer shot an arrow at random, and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, because I'm wounded."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:2 - Ahaziah fell through a window lattice in his upper chamber in Samaria and was injured. He sent messengers with these orders, "Go, ask Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:4 - Therefore this is what the LORD says, "You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!"'" So Elijah went on his way.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:5 - When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, "Why have you returned?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - They replied, "A man came up to meet us. He told us, "Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says: "You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die."'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:8 - They replied, "He was a hairy man and had a leather belt tied around his waist." The king said, "He is Elijah the Tishbite."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:9 - The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, "Prophet, the king says, 'Come down!'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - Elijah replied to the captain, "If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!" Fire then came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:11 - The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, "Prophet, this is what the king says, 'Come down at once!'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - Elijah replied to them, "If I am indeed a prophet, may fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty soldiers!" Fire from God came down from the sky and consumed him and his fifty soldiers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:13 - The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, "Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:15 - The LORD's angelic messenger said to Elijah, "Go down with him. Don't be afraid of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Elijah said to the king, "This is what the LORD says, 'You sent messengers to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. You must think there is no God in Israel from whom you can seek an oracle! Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:2 - Elijah told Elisha, "Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Bethel." But Elisha said, "As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went down to Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:3 - Some members of the prophetic guild in Bethel came out to Elisha and said, "Do you know that today the LORD is going to take your master from you?" He answered, "Yes, I know. Be quiet."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:4 - Elijah said to him, "Elisha, stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho." But he replied, "As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they went to Jericho.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - Some members of the prophetic guild in Jericho approached Elisha and said, "Do you know that today the LORD is going to take your master from you?" He answered, "Yes, I know. Be quiet."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:6 - Elijah said to him, "Stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan." But he replied, "As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So they traveled on together.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:9 - When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "What can I do for you, before I am taken away from you?" Elisha answered, "May I receive a double portion of the prophetic spirit that energizes you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:10 - Elijah replied, "That's a difficult request! If you see me taken from you, may it be so, but if you don't, it will not happen."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:14 - He took the cloak that had fallen off Elijah, hit the water with it, and said, "Where is the LORD, THE God of Elijah?" When he hit the water, it divided and Elisha crossed over.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:16 - They said to him, "Look, there are fifty capable men with your servants. Let them go and look for your master, for the wind sent from the LORD may have carried him away and dropped him on one of the hills or in one of the valleys." But Elisha replied, "Don't send them out."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:17 - But they were so insistent, he became embarrassed. So he said, "Send them out." They sent the fifty men out and they looked for three days, but could not find Elijah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:18 - When they came back, Elisha was staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go'?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:20 - Elisha said, "Get me a new jar and put some salt in it." So they got it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:21 - He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, "This is what the LORD says, 'I have purified this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:7 - He sent this message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you fight with me against Moab?" Jehoshaphat replied, "I will join you in the campaign; my army and horses are at your disposal."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:8 - He then asked, "Which invasion route are we going to take?" Jehoram answered, "By the road through the Desert of Edom."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - The king of Israel said, "Oh no! Certainly the LORD has summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to the king of Moab!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of the LORD here that we might seek the LORD's direction?" One of the servants of the king of Israel answered, "Elisha son of Shapat is here; he used to be Elijah's servant."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - Jehoshaphat said, "The LORD speaks through him." So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to visit him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 - Elisha said to the king of Israel, "Why are you here? Go to your father's prophets or your mother's prophets!" The king of Israel replied to him, "No, for the LORD is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:14 - Elisha said, "As certainly as the LORD who rules over all lives (whom I serve), if I did not respect King Jehoshaphat of Judah, I would not pay attention to you or acknowledge you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:16 - and he said, "This is what the LORD says, 'Make many cisterns in this valley,'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - Elisha said to her, "What can I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a small jar of olive oil."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - He said, "Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:6 - When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons, "Bring me another container." But he answered her, "There are no more." Then the olive oil stopped flowing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:7 - She went and told the prophet. He said, "Go, sell the olive oil. Repay your creditor, and then you and your sons can live off the rest of the profit."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:9 - She said to her husband, "Look, I'm sure that the man who regularly passes through here is a very special prophet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:12 - He told his servant Gehazi, "Ask the Shunammite woman to come here." So he did so and she came to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - Elisha said to Gehazi, "Tell her, 'Look, you have treated us with such great respect. What can I do for you? Can I put in a good word for you with the king or the commander of the army?'" She replied, "I'm quite secure."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14 - So he asked Gehazi, "What can I do for her?" Gehazi replied, "She has no son, and her husband is old."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:16 - He said, "About this time next year you will be holding a son." She said, "No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:19 - He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:22 - She called to her husband, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys, so I can go see the prophet quickly and then return."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:23 - He said, "Why do you want to go see him today? It is not the new moon or the Sabbath." She said, "Everything's fine."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:24 - She saddled the donkey and told her servant, "Lead on. Do not stop unless I say so."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:25 - So she went to visit the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, "Look, it's the Shunammite woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - Now, run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?'" She told Gehazi, "Everything's fine."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:27 - But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, "Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The LORD has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn't tell me about it."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:28 - She said, "Did I ask my master for a son? Didn't I say, 'Don't mislead me?'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:29 - Elisha told Gehazi, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take my staff, and go! Don't stop to exchange greetings with anyone! Place my staff on the child's face."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:30 - The mother of the child said, "As certainly as the LORD lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her back.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:36 - Elisha called to Gehazi and said, "Get the Shunammite woman." So he did so and she came to him. He said to her, "Take your son."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:38 - Now Elisha went back to Gilgal, while there was famine in the land. Some of the prophets were visiting him and he told his servant, "Put the big pot on the fire and boil some stew for the prophets."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:41 - He said, "Get some flour." Then he threw it into the pot and said, "Now pour some out for the men so they may eat." There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:42 - Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet - twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, "Set it before the people so they may eat."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:43 - But his attendant said, "How can I feed a hundred men with this?" He replied, "Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the LORD says, 'They will eat and have some left over.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:3 - She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - Naaman went and told his master what the girl from the land of Israel had said.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - The king of Syria said, "Go! I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So Naaman went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten suits of clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God? Can I kill or restore life? Why does he ask me to cure a man of his skin disease? Certainly you must see that he is looking for an excuse to fight me!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:11 - Naaman went away angry. He said, "Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:13 - His servants approached and said to him, "O master, if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, you would have been willing to do it. It seems you should be happy that he simply said, "Wash and you will be healed."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 - He and his entire entourage returned to the prophet. Naaman came and stood before him. He said, "For sure I know that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel! Now, please accept a gift from your servant."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:16 - But Elisha replied, "As certainly as the LORD lives (whom I serve), I will take nothing from you." Naaman insisted that he take it, but he refused.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - Naaman said, "If not, then please give your servant a load of dirt, enough for a pair of mules to carry, for your servant will never again offer a burnt offering or sacrifice to a god other than the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:19 - Elisha said to him, "Go in peace." When he had gone a short distance,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:20 - Gehazi, the prophet Elisha's servant, thought, "Look, my master did not accept what this Syrian Naaman offered him. As certainly as the LORD lives, I will run after him and accept something from him."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - He answered, "Everything is fine. My master sent me with this message, 'Look, two servants of the prophets just arrived from the Ephraimite hill country. Please give them a talent of silver and two suits of clothes.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:23 - Naaman said, "Please accept two talents of silver. He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:25 - When he came and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, "Where have you been, Gehazi?" He answered, "Your servant hasn't been anywhere."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:26 - Elisha replied, "I was there in spirit when a man turned and got down from his chariot to meet you. This is not the proper time to accept silver or to accept clothes, olive groves, vineyards, sheep, cattle, and male and female servants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:2 - Let's go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there." He said, "Go."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:3 - One of them said, "Please come along with your servants." He replied, "All right, I'll come."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:6 - The prophet asked, "Where did it drop in?" When he showed him the spot, Elisha cut off a branch, threw it in at that spot, and made the ax head float.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:7 - He said, "Lift it out." So he reached out his hand and grabbed it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:10 - So the king of Israel sent a message to the place the prophet had pointed out, warning it to be on its guard. This happened on several occasions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 - This made the king of Syria upset. So he summoned his advisers and said to them, "One of us must be helping the king of Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - One of his advisers said, "No, my master, O king. The prophet Elisha who lives in Israel keeps telling the king of Israel the things you say in your bedroom."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:13 - The king ordered, "Go, find out where he is, so I can send some men to capture him." The king was told, "He is in Dothan."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:15 - The prophet's attendant got up early in the morning. When he went outside there was an army surrounding the city, along with horses and chariots. He said to Elisha, "Oh no, my master! What will we do?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:16 - He replied, "Don't be afraid, for our side outnumbers them."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha prayed, "O LORD, open his eyes so he can see." The LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:18 - As they approached him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Strike these people with blindness." The LORD struck them with blindness as Elisha requested.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:19 - Then Elisha said to them, "This is not the right road or city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you're looking for." He led them to Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:20 - When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, "O LORD, open their eyes, so they can see." The LORD opened their eyes and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, "Should I strike them down, my master?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:22 - He replied, "Do not strike them down! You did not capture them with your sword or bow, so what gives you the right to strike them down? Give them some food and water, so they can eat and drink and then go back to their master."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:27 - He replied, "No, let the LORD help you. How can I help you? The threshing floor and winepress are empty."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:28 - Then the king asked her, "What's your problem?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Hand over your son; we'll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:31 - Then he said, "May God judge me severely if Elisha son of Shaphat still has his head by the end of the day!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:32 - Now Elisha was sitting in his house with the community leaders. The king sent a messenger on ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the leaders, "Do you realize this assassin intends to cut off my head?" Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and lean against it. His master will certainly be right behind him."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:33 - He was still talking to them when the messenger approached and said, "Look, the LORD is responsible for this disaster! Why should I continue to wait for the LORD to help?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:1 - Elisha replied, "Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says, 'About this time tomorrow a seah of finely milled flour will sell for a shekel and two seahs of barley for a shekel at the gate of Samaria.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:2 - An officer who was the king's right-hand man responded to the prophet, "Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:3 - Now four men with a skin disease were sitting at the entrance of the city gate. They said to one another, "Why are we just sitting here waiting to die?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - The LORD had caused the Syrian camp to hear the sound of chariots and horses and a large army. Then they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has paid the kings of the Hittites and Egypt to attack us!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 - Then they said to one another, "It's not right what we're doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven't told anyone. If we wait until dawn, we'll be punished. So come on, let's go and inform the royal palace."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - The king got up in the night and said to his advisers, "I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking, 'When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his advisers replied, "Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people - we're all going to die!) Let's send them out so we can know for sure what's going on."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:19 - But the officer replied to the prophet, "Look, even if the LORD made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - While Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life, the woman whose son he had brought back to life came to ask the king for her house and field. Gehazi said, "My master, O king, this is the very woman and this is her son whom Elisha brought back to life!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:8 - So the king told Hazael, "Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the LORD. Ask him, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - So Hazael went to visit Elisha. He took along a gift, as well as forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said, "Your son, King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:10 - Elisha said to him, "Go and tell him, 'You will surely recover,' but the LORD has revealed to me that he will surely die."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Hazael asked, "Why are you crying, my master?" He replied, "Because I know the trouble you will cause the Israelites. You will set fire to their fortresses, kill their young men with the sword, smash their children to bits, and rip open their pregnant women."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:13 - Hazael said, "How could your servant, who is as insignificant as a dog, accomplish this great military victory?" Elisha answered, "The LORD has revealed to me that you will be the king of Syria."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:14 - He left Elisha and went to his master. Ben Hadad asked him, "What did Elisha tell you?" Hazael replied, "He told me you would surely recover."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:19 - But the LORD was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:1 - Now Elisha the prophet summoned a member of the prophetic guild and told him, "Tuck your robes into your belt, take this container of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth Gilead.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:5 - When he arrived, the officers of the army were sitting there. So he said, "I have a message for you, O officer." Jehu asked, "For which one of us?" He replied, "For you, O officer."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:6 - So Jehu got up and went inside. Then the prophet poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, "This is what the LORD God of Israel says, 'I have designated you as king over the LORD's people Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:11 - When Jehu rejoined his master's servants, they asked him, "Is everything all right? Why did this madman visit you?" He replied, "Ah, it's not important. You know what kind of man he is and the kinds of things he says."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:12 - But they said, "You're lying! Tell us what he said." So he told them what he had said. He also related how he had said, "This is what the LORD says, 'I have designated you as king over Israel.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds he received from the Syrians when he fought against King Hazael of Syria. Jehu told his supporters, "If you really want me to be king, then don't let anyone escape from the city to go and warn Jezreel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:17 - Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel and saw Jehu's troops approaching. He said, "I see troops!" Jehoram ordered, "Send a rider out to meet them and have him ask, 'Is everything all right?'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:18 - So the horseman went to meet him and said, "This is what the king says, 'Is everything all right?'" Jehu replied, "None of your business! Follow me." The watchman reported, "The messenger reached them, but hasn't started back."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:19 - So he sent a second horseman out to them and he said, "This is what the king says, 'Is everything all right?'" Jehu replied, "None of your business! Follow me."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 - Jehoram ordered, "Hitch up my chariot." When his chariot had been hitched up, King Jehoram of Israel and King Ahaziah of Judah went out in their respective chariots to meet Jehu. They met up with him in the plot of land that had once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:22 - When Jehoram saw Jehu, he asked, "Is everything all right, Jehu?" He replied, "How can everything be all right as long as your mother Jezebel promotes idolatry and pagan practices?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:23 - Jehoram turned his chariot around and took off. He said to Ahaziah, "It's a trap, Ahaziah!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu ordered his officer Bidkar, "Pick him up and throw him into the part of the field that once belonged to Naboth of Jezreel. Remember, you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, when the LORD pronounced this judgment on him,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:27 - When King Ahaziah of Judah saw what happened, he took off up the road to Beth Haggan. Jehu chased him and ordered, "Shoot him too." They shot him while he was driving his chariot up the ascent of Gur near Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo and died there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:31 - When Jehu came through the gate, she said, "Is everything all right, Zimri, murderer of his master?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:32 - He looked up at the window and said, "Who is on my side? Who?" Two or three eunuchs looked down at him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:33 - He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:34 - He went inside and had a meal. Then he said, "Dispose of this accursed woman's corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king's daughter."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:36 - When they went back and told him, he said, "The LORD's word through his servant, Elijah the Tishbite, has come to pass. He warned, 'In the plot of land at Jezreel, dogs will devour Jezebel's flesh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:8 - The messenger came and told Jehu, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." Jehu said, "Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:9 - In the morning he went out and stood there. Then he said to all the people, "You are innocent. I conspired against my master and killed him. But who struck down all of these men?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:13 - Jehu encountered the relatives of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, "Who are you?" They replied, "We are Ahaziah's relatives. We have come down to see how the king's sons and the queen mother's sons are doing."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:14 - He said, "Capture them alive!" So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - When he left there, he met Jehonadab, son of Rekab, who had been looking for him. Jehu greeted him and asked, "Are you as committed to me as I am to you?" Jehonadab answered, "I am!" Jehu replied, "If so, give me your hand." So he offered his hand and Jehu pulled him up into the chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:16 - Jehu said, "Come with me and see how zealous I am for the LORD's cause." So he took him along in his chariot.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:18 - Jehu assembled all the people and said to them, "Ahab worshiped Baal a little; Jehu will worship him with great devotion.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:20 - Then Jehu ordered, "Make arrangements for a celebration for Baal." So they announced it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:22 - Jehu ordered the one who was in charge of the wardrobe, "Bring out robes for all the servants of Baal." So he brought out robes for them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu and Jehonadab son of Rekab went to the temple of Baal. Jehu said to the servants of Baal, "Make sure there are no servants of the LORD here with you; there must be only servants of Baal."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - They went inside to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside. He had told them, "If any of the men inside get away, you will pay with your lives!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:25 - When he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Jehu ordered the royal guard and officers, "Come in and strike them down! Don't let any escape!" So the royal guard and officers struck them down with the sword and left their bodies lying there. Then they entered the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:30 - The LORD said to Jehu, "You have done well. You have accomplished my will and carried out my wishes with regard to Ahab's dynasty. Therefore four generations of your descendants will rule over Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:15 - Jehoiada the priest ordered the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, "Bring her outside the temple to the guards. Put the sword to anyone who follows her." The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:4 - Jehoash said to the priests, "I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the LORD's temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest along with the other priests, and said to them, "Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, take no more silver from your treasurers unless you intend to use it to repair the damage."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:14 - Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:15 - Elisha told him, "Take a bow and some arrows," and he did so.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:16 - Then Elisha told the king of Israel, "Aim the bow." He did so, and Elisha placed his hands on the king's hands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:17 - Elisha said, "Open the east window," and he did so. Elisha said, "Shoot!" and he did so. Elisha said, "This arrow symbolizes the victory the LORD will give you over Syria. You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:18 - Then Elisha said, "Take the arrows," and he did so. He told the king of Israel, "Strike the ground!" He struck the ground three times and stopped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - The prophet got angry at him and said, "If you had struck the ground five or six times, you would have annihilated Syria! But now, you will defeat Syria only three times."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD's command.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:19 - The chief adviser said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: "What is your source of confidence?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - Perhaps you will tell me, 'We are trusting in the LORD our God.' But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, 'You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - Furthermore it was by the command of the LORD that I marched up against this place to destroy it. The LORD told me, 'March up against this land and destroy it.'"'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:26 - Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, "Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:27 - But the chief adviser said to them, "My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:28 - The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, "Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master this: 'This is what the LORD says: "Don't be afraid because of the things you have heard - these insults the king of Assyria's servants have hurled against me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: "LORD God of Israel, who is enthroned on the cherubs! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:1 - In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the LORD says, 'Give your household instructions, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - Isaiah ordered, "Get a fig cake." So they did as he ordered and placed it on the ulcerated sore, and he recovered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:8 - Hezekiah had said to Isaiah, "What is the confirming sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the LORD's temple the day after tomorrow?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:9 - Isaiah replied, "This is your sign from the LORD confirming that the LORD will do what he has said. Do you want the shadow to move ahead ten steps or to go back ten steps?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:10 - Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps, but not for it to go back ten steps."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:14 - Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men say? Where do they come from?" Hezekiah replied, "They come from the distant land of Babylon."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:15 - Isaiah asked, "What have they seen in your palace?" Hezekiah replied, "They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:16 - Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to the word of the LORD,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:17 - 'Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:19 - Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word which you have announced is appropriate." Then he added, "At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - He built altars in the LORD's temple, about which the LORD had said, "Jerusalem will be my home."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:8 - Hilkiah the high priest informed Shaphan the scribe, "I found the law scroll in the LORD's temple." Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, "Your servants melted down the silver in the temple and handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the LORD's temple."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:10 - Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll." Shaphan read it out loud before the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:15 - and she said to them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Say this to the man who sent you to me:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:17 - He asked, "What is this grave marker I see?" The men from the city replied, "It's the grave of the prophet who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:18 - The king said, "Leave it alone! No one must touch his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed, as well as the bones of the Israelite prophet buried beside him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:27 - The LORD announced, "I will also spurn Judah, just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose - both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, "I will live there."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:24 - Gedaliah took an oath so as to give them and their troops some assurance of safety. He said, "You don't need to be afraid to submit to the Babylonian officials. Settle down in the land and submit to the king of Babylon. Then things will go well for you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:4 - Saul told his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and stab me with it. Otherwise these uncircumcised people will come and torture me." But his armor bearer refused to do it, because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:2 - In the past, even when Saul was king, you were Israel's commanding general. The LORD your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel; you will rule over my people Israel.'"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:6 - David said, "Whoever attacks the Jebusites first will become commanding general!" So Joab son of Zeruiah attacked first and became commander.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:17 - David was thirsty and said, "How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:19 - and said, "God forbid that I should do this! Should I drink the blood of these men who risked their lives?" Because they risked their lives to bring it to him, he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:17 - David went out to meet them and said, "If you come to me in peace and want to help me, then I will make an alliance with you. But if you come to betray me to my enemies when I have not harmed you, may the God of our ancestors take notice and judge!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 12:18 - But a spirit empowered Amasai, the leader of the thirty warriors, and he said: "We are yours, O David! We support you, O son of Jesse! May you greatly prosper! May those who help you prosper! Indeed your God helps you!" So David accepted them and made them leaders of raiding bands.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:2 - David said to the whole Israelite assembly, "If you so desire and the LORD our God approves, let's spread the word to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, so they may join us.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 13:4 - The whole assembly agreed to do this, for the proposal seemed right to all the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:10 - David asked God, "Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?" The LORD said to him, "March up! I will hand them over to you!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:11 - So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said, "Using me as his instrument, God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out." So that place is called Baal Perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:12 - The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:14 - So David again asked God what he should do. This time God told him, "Don't march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:2 - Then David said, "Only the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to serve before him perpetually.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:12 - He told them: "You are the leaders of the Levites' families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:16 - David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:1 - When David had settled into his palace, he said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of the LORD's covenant is under a tent."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:2 - Nathan said to David, "You should do whatever you have in mind, for God is with you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:4 - "Go, tell my servant David: 'This is what the LORD says: "You must not build me a house in which to live.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:16 - David went in, sat before the LORD, and said: "Who am I, O LORD God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:2 - David said, "I will express my loyalty to Hanun son of Nahash, for his father was loyal to me." So David sent messengers to express his sympathy over his father's death. When David's servants entered Ammonite territory to visit Hanun and express the king's sympathy,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:5 - Messengers came and told David what had happened to the men, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards grow again; then you may come back."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - Joab said, "If the Arameans start to overpower me, you come to my rescue. If the Ammonites start to overpower you, I will come to your rescue.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:2 - David told Joab and the leaders of the army, "Go, count the number of warriors from Beer Sheba to Dan. Then bring back a report to me so I may know how many we have."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:3 - Joab replied, "May the LORD make his army a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8 - David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:11 - Gad went to David and told him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Pick one of these:
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:13 - David said to Gad, "I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the LORD, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:15 - God sent an angel to ravage Jerusalem. As he was doing so, the LORD watched and relented from his judgment. He told the angel who was destroying, "That's enough! Stop now!" Now the LORD's angel was standing near the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:17 - David said to God, "Was I not the one who decided to number the army? I am the one who sinned and committed this awful deed! As for these sheep - what have they done? O LORD my God, attack me and my family, but remove the plague from your people!"
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:18 - So the LORD's messenger told Gad to instruct David to go up and build an altar for the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:22 - David said to Ornan, "Sell me the threshing floor so I can build on it an altar for the LORD - I'll pay top price - so that the plague may be removed from the people."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:23 - Ornan told David, "You can have it! My master, the king, may do what he wants. Look, I am giving you the oxen for burnt sacrifices, the threshing sledges for wood, and the wheat for an offering. I give it all to you."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:24 - King David replied to Ornan, "No, I insist on buying it for top price. I will not offer to the LORD what belongs to you or offer a burnt sacrifice that cost me nothing.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:27 - The LORD ordered the messenger to put his sword back into its sheath.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:1 - David then said, "This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel."
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:5 - David said, "My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, and the temple to be built for the LORD must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for its construction." So David made extensive preparations before he died.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:7 - David said to Solomon: "My son, I really wanted to build a temple to honor the LORD my God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:25 - For David said, "The LORD God of Israel has given his people rest and has permanently settled in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:23 - David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:2 - King David rose to his feet and said: "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I wanted to build a temple where the ark of the LORD's covenant could be placed as a footstool for our God. I have made the preparations for building it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:3 - But God said to me, 'You must not build a temple to honor me, for you are a warrior and have spilled blood.'
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - David said to his son Solomon: "Be strong and brave! Do it! Don't be afraid and don't panic! For the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not leave you or abandon you before all the work for the service of the LORD's temple is finished.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 - King David said to the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:20 - David told the entire assembly: "Praise the LORD your God!" So the entire assembly praised the LORD God of their ancestors; they bowed down and stretched out flat on the ground before the LORD and the king.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:2 - Solomon addressed all Israel, including those who commanded units of a thousand and a hundred, the judges, and all the leaders of all Israel who were heads of families.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:7 - That night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Tell me what I should give you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:8 - Solomon replied to God, "You demonstrated great loyalty to my father David and have made me king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:11 - God said to Solomon, "Because you desire this, and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, and because you did not ask for long life, but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:1 - (1:18) Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:11 - King Huram of Tyre sent this letter to Solomon: "Because the LORD loves his people, he has made you their king."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - Huram also said, "Worthy of praise is the LORD God of Israel, who made the sky and the earth! He has given David a wise son who has discernment and insight and will build a temple for the LORD, as well as a royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:15 - Now let my lord send to his servants the wheat, barley, olive oil, and wine he has promised;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:1 - Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he lives in thick darkness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:4 - He said, "The LORD God of Israel is worthy of praise because he has fulfilled what he promised my father David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:8 - The LORD told my father David, 'It is right for you to have a strong desire to build a temple to honor me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:14 - and prayed: "O LORD God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty to your servants who obey you with sincerity.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:12 - the LORD appeared to Solomon at night and said to him: "I have answered your prayer and chosen this place to be my temple where sacrifices are to be made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 - Solomon moved Pharaoh's daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said, "My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:5 - She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:5 - He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:9 - He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, 'Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 12:5 - Shemaiah the prophet visited Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who were assembled in Jerusalem because of Shishak. He said to them, "This is what the LORD says: 'You have rejected me, so I have rejected you and will hand you over to Shishak.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:4 - Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: "Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:4 - He ordered Judah to seek the LORD God of their ancestors and to observe his law and commands.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - He said to the people of Judah: "Let's build these cities and fortify them with walls, towers, and barred gates. The land remains ours because we have followed the LORD our God and he has made us secure on all sides." So they built the cities and prospered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:11 - Asa prayed to the LORD his God: "O LORD, there is no one but you who can help the weak when they are vastly outnumbered. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you and have marched on your behalf against this huge army. O LORD our God, don't let men prevail against you!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:2 - He met Asa and told him, "Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin! The LORD is with you when you are loyal to him. If you seek him, he will respond to you, but if you reject him, he will reject you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:7 - At that time Hanani the prophet visited King Asa of Judah and said to him: "Because you relied on the king of Syria and did not rely on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped from your hand.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:3 - King Ahab of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?" Jehoshaphat replied to the king of Israel, "I will support you; my army is at your disposal and will support you in battle."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:4 - Then Jehoshaphat added, "First seek an oracle from the LORD."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:5 - So the king of Israel assembled 400 prophets and asked them, "Should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" They said, "Attack! God will hand it over to the king."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:6 - But Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there not a prophet of the LORD still here, that we may ask him?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:7 - The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man through whom we can seek the LORD's will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but always disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say such things!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:8 - The king of Israel summoned an officer and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah son of Imlah."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:10 - Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, "This is what the LORD says, 'With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:13 - But Micaiah said, "As certainly as the LORD lives, I will say what my God tells me to say!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:14 - Micaiah came before the king and the king asked him, "Micaiah, should we attack Ramoth Gilead or not?" He answered him, "Attack! You will succeed; they will be handed over to you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:15 - The king said to him, "How many times must I make you solemnly promise in the name of the LORD to tell me only the truth?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:16 - Micaiah replied, "I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains like sheep that have no shepherd. Then the LORD said, 'They have no master. They should go home in peace.'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:17 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Didn't I tell you he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:18 - Micaiah said, "That being the case, hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, with all the heavenly assembly standing on his right and on his left.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:19 - The LORD said, 'Who will deceive King Ahab of Israel, so he will attack Ramoth Gilead and die there?' One said this and another that.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:20 - Then a spirit stepped forward and stood before the LORD. He said, 'I will deceive him.' The LORD asked him, 'How?'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:21 - He replied, 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.' The LORD said, 'Deceive and overpower him. Go out and do as you have proposed.'
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:23 - Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, "Which way did the LORD's spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - Micaiah replied, "Look, you will see in the day when you go into an inner room to hide."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:25 - Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the city official and Joash the king's son.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - Say, 'This is what the king says: "Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I return safely."'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:27 - Micaiah said, "If you really do return safely, then the LORD has not spoken through me!" Then he added, "Take note, all you people."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:29 - The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and then enter the battle; but you wear your royal attire." So the king of Israel disguised himself and they entered the battle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:33 - Now an archer shot an arrow at random and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, "Turn around and take me from the battle line, for I am wounded."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:2 - the prophet Jehu son of Hanani confronted him; he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Is it right to help the wicked and be an ally of those who oppose the LORD? Because you have done this the LORD is angry with you!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 19:6 - He told the judges, "Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:6 - He prayed: "O LORD God of our ancestors, you are the God who lives in heaven and rules over all the kingdoms of the nations. You possess strength and power; no one can stand against you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:15 - He said: "Pay attention, all you people of Judah, residents of Jerusalem, and King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says to you: 'Don't be afraid and don't panic because of this huge army! For the battle is not yours, but God's.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:20 - Early the next morning they marched out to the Desert of Tekoa. When they were ready to march, Jehoshaphat stood up and said: "Listen to me, you people of Judah and residents of Jerusalem! Trust in the LORD your God and you will be safe! Trust in the message of his prophets and you will win."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:7 - But the LORD was unwilling to destroy David's dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - He looked for Ahaziah, who was captured while hiding in Samaria. They brought him to Jehu and then executed him. They did give him a burial, for they reasoned, "He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with his whole heart." There was no one in Ahaziah's family strong enough to rule in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:3 - and the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in the temple of God. Jehoiada said to them, "The king's son will rule, just as the LORD promised David's descendants.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:13 - Then she saw the king standing by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and trumpeters stood beside the king and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets, and the musicians with various instruments were leading the celebration. Athaliah tore her clothes and yelled, "Treason! Treason!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 - Jehoiada the priest sent out the officers of the units of hundreds, who were in charge of the army, and ordered them, "Bring her outside the temple to the guards. Put the sword to anyone who follows her." The priest gave this order because he had decided she should not be executed in the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:5 - He assembled the priests and Levites and ordered them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and collect the annual quota of silver from all Israel for repairs on the temple of your God. Be quick about it!" But the Levites delayed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:6 - So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest, and said to him, "Why have you not made the Levites collect from Judah and Jerusalem the tax authorized by Moses the LORD's servant and by the assembly of Israel at the tent containing the tablets of the law?"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:8 - The king ordered a chest to be made and placed outside the gate of the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:9 - An edict was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem requiring the people to bring to the LORD the tax that Moses, God's servant, imposed on Israel in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:20 - God's Spirit energized Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood up before the people and said to them, "This is what God says: 'Why are you violating the commands of the LORD? You will not be prosperous! Because you have rejected the LORD, he has rejected you!'"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 - King Joash disregarded the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada's son. As Zechariah was dying, he said, "May the LORD take notice and seek vengeance!"
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:9 - Amaziah asked the prophet: "But what should I do about the hundred talents of silver I paid the Israelite troops?" The prophet replied, "The LORD is capable of giving you more than that."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:16 - While he was speaking, Amaziah said to him, "Did we appoint you to be a royal counselor? Stop prophesying or else you will be killed!" So the prophet stopped, but added, "I know that the LORD has decided to destroy you, because you have done this thing and refused to listen to my advice."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:9 - Oded, a prophet of the LORD, was there. He went to meet the army as they arrived in Samaria and said to them: "Look, because the LORD God of your ancestors was angry with Judah he handed them over to you. You have killed them so mercilessly that God has taken notice.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:22 - During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:23 - He offered sacrifices to the gods of Damascus whom he thought had defeated him. He reasoned, "Since the gods of the kings of Damascus helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me." But they caused him and all Israel to stumble.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:5 - He said to them: "Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:21 - They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. The king told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:24 - Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:27 - Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the LORD, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:30 - King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the LORD, using the psalms of David and Asaph the prophet. So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:31 - Hezekiah said, "Now you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the LORD's temple." So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so brought burnt sacrifices.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:4 - He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to contribute the portion prescribed for the priests and Levites so they might be obedient to the law of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:10 - Azariah, the head priest from the family of Zadok, said to him, "Since the contributions began arriving in the LORD's temple, we have had plenty to eat and have a large quantity left over. For the LORD has blessed his people, and this large amount remains."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:11 - Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the LORD's temple. When this was done,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:1 - After these faithful deeds were accomplished, King Sennacherib of Assyria invaded Judah. He besieged the fortified cities, intending to seize them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Hezekiah is the one who eliminated the LORD's high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, "At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:17 - He wrote letters mocking the LORD God of Israel and insulting him with these words: "The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah's god rescue his people from my power."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:4 - He built altars in the LORD's temple, about which the LORD had said, "Jerusalem will be my permanent home."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - He put an idolatrous image he had made in God's temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:16 - He erected the altar of the LORD and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:15 - Hilkiah informed Shaphan the scribe, "I found the law scroll in the LORD's temple." Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:22 - So Hilkiah and the others sent by the king went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the supervisor of the wardrobe. (She lived in Jerusalem in the Mishneh district.) They stated their business,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:23 - and she said to them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Say this to the man who sent you to me:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - He told the Levites, who instructed all Israel about things consecrated to the LORD, "Place the holy ark in the temple which King Solomon son of David of Israel built. Don't carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel!
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was observed in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:21 - Necho sent messengers to him, saying, "Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah? I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war. God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you."
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:23 - Archers shot King Josiah; the king ordered his servants, "Take me out of this chariot, for I am seriously wounded."
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:2 - "Thus says King Cyrus of Persia: "'The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:63 - The governor instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:3 - But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the leaders of Israel said to them, "You have no right to help us build the temple of our God. We will build it by ourselves for the LORD God of Israel, just as King Cyrus, the king of Persia, has commanded us."
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:15 - He said to him, "Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location."
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - and in the presence of his colleagues and the army of Samaria he said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they be left to themselves? Will they again offer sacrifice? Will they finish this in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones to life again from piles of dust?"
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:10 - Then those in Judah said, "The strength of the laborers has failed! The debris is so great that we are unable to rebuild the wall."
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also shook out my garment, and I said, "In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!" All the assembly replied, "So be it!" and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:10 - Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home. He said, "Let's set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let's close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you."
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:65 - The governor instructed them not to eat any of the sacred food until there was a priest who could consult the Urim and Thummim.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:9 - Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priestly scribe, and the Levites who were imparting understanding to the people said to all of them, "This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep." For all the people had been weeping when they heard the words of the law.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:10 - He said to them, "Go and eat delicacies and drink sweet drinks and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:15 - and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written."
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:6 - You alone are the LORD. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, along with all their multitude of stars, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You impart life to them all, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, as King Ahasuerus was feeling the effects of the wine, he ordered Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who attended him,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:13 - The king then inquired of the wise men who were discerners of the times - for it was the royal custom to confer with all those who were proficient in laws and legalities.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - Memucan then replied to the king and the officials, "The wrong of Queen Vashti is not against the king alone, but against all the officials and all the people who are throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - The king replied to Haman, "Keep your money, and do with those people whatever you wish."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a written copy of the law that had been disseminated in Susa for their destruction so that he could show it to Esther and talk to her about it. He also gave instructions that she should go to the king to implore him and petition him on behalf of her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then Esther replied to Hathach with instructions for Mordecai:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - he said to take back this answer to Esther:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - It so happened that on the third day Esther put on her royal attire and stood in the inner court of the palace, opposite the king's quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the palace, opposite the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she met with his approval. The king extended to Esther the gold scepter that was in his hand, and Esther approached and touched the end of the scepter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:3 - The king said to her, "What is on your mind, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even as much as half the kingdom will be given to you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:4 - Esther replied, "If the king is so inclined, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:5 - The king replied, "Find Haman quickly so that we can do as Esther requests." So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:6 - While at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther, "What is your request? It shall be given to you. What is your petition? Ask for as much as half the kingdom, and it shall be done!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:7 - Esther responded, "My request and my petition is this:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - Haman said, "Furthermore, Queen Esther invited only me to accompany the king to the banquet that she prepared! And also tomorrow I am invited along with the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented." It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:1 - Throughout that night the king was unable to sleep, so he asked for the book containing the historical records to be brought. As the records were being read in the king's presence,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - The king asked, "What great honor was bestowed on Mordecai because of this?" The king's attendants who served him responded, "Not a thing was done for him."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - Then the king said, "Who is that in the courtyard?" Now Haman had come to the outer courtyard of the palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had constructed for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - The king's attendants said to him, "It is Haman who is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him enter."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" Haman thought to himself, "Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 - So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 - The king then said to Haman, "Go quickly! Take the clothing and the horse, just as you have described, and do as you just indicated to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king's gate. Don't neglect a single thing of all that you have said."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:2 - On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther, "What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:3 - Queen Esther replied, "If I have met with your approval, O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5 - Then King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, "Who is this individual? Where is this person to be found who is presumptuous enough to act in this way?"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:6 - Esther replied, "The oppressor and enemy is this evil Haman!" Then Haman became terrified in the presence of the king and queen.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down on the couch where Esther was lying. The king exclaimed, "Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!" As these words left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Harbona, one of the king's eunuchs, said, "Indeed, there is the gallows that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke out in the king's behalf. It stands near Haman's home and is seventy-five feet high." The king said, "Hang him on it!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - She said, "If the king is so inclined and if I have met with his approval and if the matter is agreeable to the king and if I am attractive to him, let an edict be written rescinding those recorded intentions of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote in order to destroy the Jews who are throughout all the king's provinces.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have already given Haman's estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action against the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - Then the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done."
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - Esther replied, "If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today's law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:7 - The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" And Satan answered the LORD, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:8 - So the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:9 - Then Satan answered the LORD, "Is it for nothing that Job fears God?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:12 - So the LORD said to Satan, "All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!" So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:14 - and a messenger came to Job, saying, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:16 - While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, "The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants - it has consumed them! And I - only I alone - escaped to tell you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:17 - While this one was still speaking another messenger arrived and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I - only I alone - escaped to tell you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:20 - Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:2 - And the LORD said to Satan, "Where do you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roving about on the earth, and from walking back and forth across it."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:3 - Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - But Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life!
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:6 - So the LORD said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life."
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:9 - Then his wife said to him, "Are you still holding firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:10 - But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:1 - And Job took up his discourse again:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:14 - The deep says, 'It is not with me.' And the sea says, 'It is not with me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:28 - And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the LORD - that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:1 - Then Job continued his speech:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:29 - If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him -
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 32:6 - So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: "I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:10 - But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:10 - And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:1 - Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:1 - Then the LORD answered Job:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 40:6 - Then the LORD answered Job from the whirlwind:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:7 - After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:7 - The king says, "I will announce the LORD'S decree. He said to me: 'You are my son! This very day I have become your father!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:6 - He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity."
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He says to himself, "God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices."
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:13 - Why does the wicked man reject God? He says to himself, "You will not hold me accountable."
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:1 - Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - He said: "I love you, LORD, my source of strength!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:8 - My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:9 - For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:16 - God says this to the evildoer: "How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 - Fools say to themselves, "There is no God." They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:22 - The Lord says, "I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:31 - He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:34 - He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:23 - He threatened to destroy them, but Moses, his chosen one, interceded with him and turned back his destructive anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:34 - They did not destroy the nations, as the LORD had commanded them to do.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:25 - He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:1 - Here is the LORD's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:5 - Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he gave the command and they came into existence.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:4 - "Whoever is naive, let him turn in here," she says to those who lack understanding.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:2 - "Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:27 - The Teacher says: I discovered this while trying to discover the scheme of things, item by item.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:8 - "Absolutely futile!" laments the Teacher, "All of these things are futile!"
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:7 - He touched my mouth with it and said, "Look, this coal has touched your lips. Your evil is removed; your sin is forgiven."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:9 - He said, "Go and tell these people: 'Listen continually, but don't understand! Look continually, but don't perceive!'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - I replied, "How long, sovereign master?" He said, "Until cities are in ruins and unpopulated, and houses are uninhabited, and the land is ruined and devastated,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - So the LORD told Isaiah, "Go out with your son Shear-jashub and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz responded, "I don't want to ask; I don't want to put the LORD to a test."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - So Isaiah replied, "Pay attention, family of David. Do you consider it too insignificant to try the patience of men? Is that why you are also trying the patience of my God?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:1 - The LORD told me, "Take a large tablet and inscribe these words on it with an ordinary stylus: 'Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:3 - I then had sexual relations with the prophetess; she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD told me, "Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:13 - For he says: "By my strong hand I have accomplished this, by my strategy that I devised. I invaded the territory of nations, and looted their storehouses. Like a mighty conqueror, I brought down rulers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:3 - Later the LORD explained, "In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:6 - For this is what the sovereign master has told me: "Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:8 - Then the guard cries out: "On the watchtower, O sovereign master, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:9 - Look what's coming! A charioteer, a team of horses." When questioned, he replies, "Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!"
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea says this, O fortress of the sea: "I have not gone into labor or given birth; I have not raised young men or brought up young women."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:13 - The sovereign master says, "These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:4 - The chief adviser said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: "What is your source of confidence?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, "Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:12 - But the chief adviser said, "My master did not send me to speak these words only to your master and to you. His message is also for the men who sit on the wall, for they will eat their own excrement and drink their own urine along with you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:13 - The chief adviser then stood there and called out loudly in the Judahite dialect, "Listen to the message of the great king, the king of Assyria.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:6 - Isaiah said to them, "Tell your master this: 'This is what the LORD says: "Don't be afraid because of the things you have heard - these insults the king of Assyria's servants have hurled against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'Because you prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:1 - In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, "This is what the LORD says, 'Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 - Isaiah ordered, "Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:22 - Hezekiah said, "What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the LORD's temple?"
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:3 - Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men say? Where do they come from?" Hezekiah replied, "They come from the distant land of Babylon."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:4 - Isaiah asked, "What have they seen in your palace?" Hezekiah replied, "They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:5 - Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Listen to the word of the LORD who commands armies:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:6 - 'Look, a time is coming when everything in your palace and the things your ancestors have accumulated to this day will be carried away to Babylon; nothing will be left,' says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:8 - Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The LORD's word which you have announced is appropriate." Then he thought, "For there will be peace and stability during my lifetime."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:25 - "To whom can you compare me? Whom do I resemble?" says the Holy One.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:16 - Half of it he burns in the fire - over that half he cooks meat; he roasts a meal and fills himself. Yes, he warms himself and says, 'Ah! I am warm as I look at the fire.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:13 - It is me - I stir him up and commission him; I will make all his ways level. He will rebuild my city; he will send my exiled people home, but not for a price or a bribe," says the LORD who commands armies.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:4 - says our protector - the LORD who commands armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:14 - "Zion said, 'The LORD has abandoned me, the sovereign master has forgotten me.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:15 - Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast? Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne? Even if mothers were to forget, I could never forget you!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - "Shout for joy, O barren one who has not given birth! Give a joyful shout and cry out, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one are more numerous than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:6 - "Indeed, the LORD will call you back like a wife who has been abandoned and suffers from depression, like a young wife when she has been rejected," says your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:8 - In a burst of anger I rejected you momentarily, but with lasting devotion I will have compassion on you," says your protector, the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:10 - Even if the mountains are removed and the hills displaced, my devotion will not be removed from you, nor will my covenant of friendship be displaced," says the LORD, the one who has compassion on you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:8 - The sovereign LORD says this, the one who gathers the dispersed of Israel: "I will still gather them up."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:19 - I am the one who gives them reason to celebrate. Complete prosperity is available both to those who are far away and those who are nearby," says the LORD, "and I will heal them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:21 - There will be no prosperity," says my God, "for the wicked."
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:21 - "As for me, this is my promise to them," says the LORD. "My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 63:8 - He said, "Certainly they will be my people, children who are not disloyal." He became their deliverer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - "Do I bring a baby to the birth opening and then not deliver it?" asks the LORD. "Or do I bring a baby to the point of delivery and then hold it back?" asks your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - "As for those who consecrate and ritually purify themselves so they can follow their leader and worship in the sacred orchards, those who eat the flesh of pigs and other disgusting creatures, like mice - they will all be destroyed together," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:20 - They will bring back all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to the LORD. They will bring them on horses, in chariots, in wagons, on mules, and on camels to my holy hill Jerusalem," says the LORD, "just as the Israelites bring offerings to the LORD's temple in ritually pure containers.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:21 - And I will choose some of them as priests and Levites," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:23 - From one month to the next and from one Sabbath to the next, all people will come to worship me," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:7 - The LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am too young.' But go to whomever I send you and say whatever I tell you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:9 - Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "I will most assuredly give you the words you are to speak for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:12 - Then the LORD said, "You have observed correctly. This means I am watching to make sure my threats are carried out."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:14 - Then the LORD said, "This means destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:19 - They will attack you but they will not be able to overcome you, for I will be with you to rescue you," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - "Go and declare in the hearing of the people of Jerusalem: 'This is what the LORD says: "I have fond memories of you, how devoted you were to me in your early years. I remember how you loved me like a new bride; you followed me through the wilderness, through a land that had never been planted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:25 - Do not chase after other gods until your shoes wear out and your throats become dry. But you say, 'It is useless for you to try and stop me because I love those foreign gods and want to pursue them!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 - You people of this generation, listen to what the LORD says. "Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, 'We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 - When Josiah was king of Judah, the LORD said to me, "Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - Then the LORD said to me, "Under the circumstances, wayward Israel could even be considered less guilty than unfaithful Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Are they ashamed because they have done such shameful things? No, they are not at all ashamed. They do not even know how to blush! So they will die, just like others have died. They will be brought to ruin when I punish them," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:13 - The LORD answered, "This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:6 - The LORD said to me, "Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: 'Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:9 - The LORD said to me, "The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem have plotted rebellion against me!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:6 - Many days later the LORD said to me, "Go at once to Perath and get the shorts I ordered you to bury there."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:11 - Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for good to come to these people!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:14 - Then the LORD said to me, "Those prophets are prophesying lies while claiming my authority! I did not send them. I did not commission them. I did not speak to them. They are prophesying to these people false visions, worthless predictions, and the delusions of their own mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:1 - Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:1 - The LORD told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:3 - But the next day Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks. When he did, Jeremiah said to him, "The LORD's name for you is not 'Pashhur' but 'Terror is Everywhere.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:3 - Jeremiah answered them, "Tell Zedekiah
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:3 - The LORD said to me, "What do you see, Jeremiah?" I answered, "I see figs. The good ones look very good. But the bad ones look very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - So the LORD, the God of Israel, spoke to me in a vision. "Take this cup from my hand. It is filled with the wine of my wrath. Take it and make the nations to whom I send you drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - Then the LORD said to me, "Tell them that the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Drink this cup until you get drunk and vomit. Drink until you fall down and can't get up. For I will send wars sweeping through you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, tell them that the LORD who rules over all says 'You most certainly must drink it!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 - The LORD who rules over all says, 'Disaster will soon come on one nation after another. A mighty storm of military destruction is rising up from the distant parts of the earth.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:2 - The LORD said, "Go stand in the courtyard of the LORD's temple. Speak out to all the people who are coming from the towns of Judah to worship in the LORD's temple. Tell them everything I command you to tell them. Do not leave out a single word!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:4 - Tell them that the LORD says, 'You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:12 - Then Jeremiah made his defense before all the officials and all the people. "The LORD sent me to prophesy everything you have heard me say against this temple and against this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:18 - "Micah from Moresheth prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. He told all the people of Judah, 'The LORD who rules over all says, "Zion will become a plowed field. Jerusalem will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge."'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:2 - The LORD told me, "Make a yoke out of leather straps and wooden crossbars and put it on your neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:4 - Charge them to give their masters a message from me. Tell them, 'The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says to give your masters this message.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the LORD, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - I also told the priests and all the people, "The LORD says, 'Do not listen to what your prophets are saying. They are prophesying to you that the valuable articles taken from the LORD's temple will be brought back from Babylon very soon. But they are prophesying a lie to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:19 - For the LORD who rules over all has already spoken about the two bronze pillars, the large bronze basin called 'The Sea,' and the movable bronze stands. He has already spoken about the rest of the valuable articles that are left in this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:2 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'I will break the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:5 - Then the prophet Jeremiah responded to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the LORD's temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - The prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen! May the LORD do all this! May the LORD make your prophecy come true! May he bring back to this place from Babylon all the valuable articles taken from the LORD's temple and the people who were carried into exile.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - Then he spoke up in the presence of all the people. "The LORD says, 'In the same way I will break the yoke of servitude of all the nations to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon before two years are over.'" After he heard this, the prophet Jeremiah departed and went on his way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:13 - "Go and tell Hananiah that the LORD says, 'You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "I have put an irresistible yoke of servitude on all these nations so they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And they will indeed serve him. I have even given him control over the wild animals."'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:15 - Then the prophet Jeremiah told the prophet Hananiah, "Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you! You are making these people trust in a lie!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:16 - So the LORD says, 'I will most assuredly remove you from the face of the earth. You will die this very year because you have counseled rebellion against the LORD.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:4 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says to all those he sent into exile to Babylon from Jerusalem,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - "For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Do not let the prophets or those among you who claim to be able to predict the future by divination deceive you. And do not pay any attention to the dreams that you are encouraging them to dream.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:10 - "For the LORD says, 'Only when the seventy years of Babylonian rule are over will I again take up consideration for you. Then I will fulfill my gracious promise to you and restore you to your homeland.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:21 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all also has something to say about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so. 'I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and he will execute them before your very eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:31 - "Send a message to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, 'The LORD has spoken about Shemaiah the Nehelamite. "Shemaiah has spoken to you as a prophet even though I did not send him. He is making you trust in a lie.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:32 - Because he has done this," the LORD says, "I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the LORD, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the LORD."'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:2 - "The LORD God of Israel says, 'Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:3 - For I, the LORD, affirm that the time will come when I will reverse the plight of my people, Israel and Judah,' says the LORD. 'I will bring them back to the land I gave their ancestors and they will take possession of it once again.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:5 - Yes, here is what he says: "You hear cries of panic and of terror; there is no peace in sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:8 - When the time for them to be rescued comes," says the LORD who rules over all, "I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:12 - Moreover, the LORD says to the people of Zion, "Your injuries are incurable; your wounds are severe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:18 - The LORD says, "I will restore the ruined houses of the descendants of Jacob. I will show compassion on their ruined homes. Every city will be rebuilt on its former ruins. Every fortified dwelling will occupy its traditional site.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 - At that time I will be the God of all the clans of Israel and they will be my people. I, the LORD, affirm it!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:2 - The LORD says, "The people of Israel who survived death at the hands of the enemy will find favor in the wilderness as they journey to find rest for themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:7 - Moreover, the LORD says, "Sing for joy for the descendants of Jacob. Utter glad shouts for that foremost of the nations. Make your praises heard. Then say, 'LORD, rescue your people. Deliver those of Israel who remain alive.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:15 - The LORD says, "A sound is heard in Ramah, a sound of crying in bitter grief. It is the sound of Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because her children are gone."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:16 - The LORD says to her, "Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! For your heartfelt repentance will be rewarded. Your children will return from the land of the enemy. I, the LORD, affirm it!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:23 - The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will restore the people of Judah to their land and to their towns. When I do, they will again say of Jerusalem, 'May the LORD bless you, you holy mountain, the place where righteousness dwells.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:35 - The LORD has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the LORD who rules over all.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:3 - For King Zedekiah had confined Jeremiah there after he had reproved him for prophesying as he did. He had asked Jeremiah, "Why do you keep prophesying these things? Why do you keep saying that the LORD says, 'I will hand this city over to the king of Babylon? I will let him capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:14 - 'The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "Take these documents, both the sealed copy of the deed of purchase and the unsealed copy. Put them in a clay jar so that they may be preserved for a long time to come."'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:15 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land."'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:28 - Therefore I, the LORD, say: 'I will indeed hand this city over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and the Babylonian army. They will capture it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:36 - "You and your people are right in saying, 'War, starvation, and disease are sure to make this city fall into the hands of the king of Babylon.' But now I, the LORD God of Israel, have something further to say about this city:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:42 - "For I, the LORD, say: 'I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:2 - "I, the LORD, do these things. I, the LORD, form the plan to bring them about. I am known as the LORD. I say to you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:4 - For I, the LORD God of Israel, have something more to say about the houses in this city and the royal buildings which have been torn down for defenses against the siege ramps and military incursions of the Babylonians:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:10 - "I, the LORD, say: 'You and your people are saying about this place, "It lies in ruins. There are no people or animals in it." That is true. The towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem will soon be desolate, uninhabited either by people or by animals. But happy sounds will again be heard in these places.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:11 - Once again there will be sounds of joy and gladness and the glad celebrations of brides and grooms. Once again people will bring their thank offerings to the temple of the LORD and will say, "Give thanks to the LORD who rules over all. For the LORD is good and his unfailing love lasts forever." For I, the LORD, affirm that I will restore the land to what it was in days of old.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:12 - "I, the LORD who rules over all, say: 'This place will indeed lie in ruins. There will be no people or animals in it. But there will again be in it and in its towns sheepfolds where shepherds can rest their sheep.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:13 - I, the LORD, say that shepherds will once again count their sheep as they pass into the fold. They will do this in all the towns in the southern hill country, the western foothills, the southern hill country, the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, and the towns of Judah.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:2 - The LORD God of Israel told Jeremiah to go and give King Zedekiah of Judah a message. He told Jeremiah to tell him, "The LORD says, 'I am going to hand this city over to the king of Babylon and he will burn it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - You will die a peaceful death. They will burn incense at your burial just as they did at the burial of your ancestors, the former kings who preceded you. They will mourn for you, saying, "Poor, poor master!" Indeed, you have my own word on this. I, the LORD, affirm it!'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:13 - "The LORD God of Israel has a message for you. 'I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt where they had been slaves. It stipulated,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:17 - So I, the LORD, say: "You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the LORD, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:17 - So I, the LORD, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: "I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer."'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:18 - Then Jeremiah spoke to the Rechabite community, "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'You have obeyed the orders of your ancestor Jonadab. You have followed all his instructions. You have done exactly as he commanded you.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:18 - Baruch answered, "Yes, they came from his own mouth. He dictated all these words to me and I wrote them down in ink on this scroll."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:29 - Tell King Jehoiakim of Judah, 'The LORD says, "You burned the scroll. You asked Jeremiah, 'How dare you write in this scroll that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land and wipe out all the people and animals on it?'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:30 - So the LORD says concerning King Jehoiakim of Judah, "None of his line will occupy the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to be exposed to scorching heat by day and frost by night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:7 - "The LORD God of Israel says, 'Give a message to the king of Judah who sent you to ask me to help him. Tell him, "The army of Pharaoh that was on its way to help you will go back home to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:9 - Moreover, I, the LORD, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonian forces will go away and leave you alone. For they will not go away.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:14 - Jeremiah answered, "That's a lie! I am not deserting to the Babylonians." But Irijah would not listen to him. Irijah put Jeremiah under arrest and took him to the officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:17 - Then King Zedekiah had him brought to the palace. There he questioned him privately and asked him, "Is there any message from the LORD?" Jeremiah answered, "Yes, there is." Then he announced, "You will be handed over to the king of Babylon."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:2 - "The LORD says, 'Those who stay in this city will die in battle or of starvation or disease. Those who leave the city and surrender to the Babylonians will live. They will escape with their lives.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:3 - They had also heard him say, "The LORD says, 'This city will certainly be handed over to the army of the king of Babylon. They will capture it.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:5 - King Zedekiah said to them, "Very well, you can do what you want with him. For I cannot do anything to stop you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:8 - Ebed Melech departed the palace and went to speak to the king. He said to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:12 - Ebed Melech called down to Jeremiah, "Put these rags and worn-out clothes under your armpits to pad the ropes. Jeremiah did as Ebed Melech instructed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:14 - Some time later Zedekiah sent and had Jeremiah brought to him at the third entrance of the LORD's temple. The king said to Jeremiah, "I would like to ask you a question. Do not hide anything from me when you answer."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:15 - Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I answer you, you will certainly kill me. If I give you advice, you will not listen to me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:17 - Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "The LORD, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, says, 'You must surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon. If you do, your life will be spared and this city will not be burned down. Indeed, you and your whole family will be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:19 - Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians. The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:20 - Then Jeremiah answered, "You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the LORD by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 38:24 - Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, "Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had. If you do, you will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 39:16 - "Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, 'The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:2 - The captain of the royal guard took Jeremiah aside and said to him, "The LORD your God threatened this place with this disaster.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:15 - Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah there at Mizpah, "Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah before anyone knows about it. Otherwise he will kill you and all the Judeans who have rallied around you will be scattered. Then what remains of Judah will disappear."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:16 - But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, "Do not do that because what you are saying about Ishmael is not true."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:6 - Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them. He was pretending to cry as he walked along. When he met them, he said to them, "Come with me to meet Gedaliah son of Ahikam."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:4 - The prophet Jeremiah answered them, "Agreed! I will indeed pray to the LORD your God as you have asked. I will tell you everything the LORD replies in response to you. I will not keep anything back from you."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:9 - Then Jeremiah said to them, "You sent me to the LORD God of Israel to make your request known to him. Here is what he says to you:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:15 - If you people who remain in Judah do that, then listen to what the LORD says. The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'If you are so determined to go to Egypt that you go and settle there,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'If you go to Egypt, I will pour out my wrath on you just as I poured out my anger and wrath on the citizens of Jerusalem. You will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. You will never see this place again.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! The LORD our God did not send you to tell us, 'You must not go to Egypt and settle there.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - Then tell them, 'The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will bring my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will set his throne over these stones which I have buried. He will pitch his royal tent over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:2 - "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'You have seen all the disaster I brought on Jerusalem and all the towns of Judah. Indeed, they now lie in ruins and are deserted.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:7 - "So now the LORD, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, asks, 'Why will you do such great harm to yourselves? Why should every man, woman, child, and baby of yours be destroyed from the midst of Judah? Why should you leave yourselves without a remnant?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:11 - "Because of this, the LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to the point of destroying all the Judeans here.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:20 - Then Jeremiah replied to all the people, both men and women, who responded to him in this way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:24 - Then Jeremiah spoke to all the people, particularly to all the women. "Listen to what the LORD has to say all you people of Judah who are in Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:25 - The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says, 'You women have confirmed by your actions what you vowed with your lips! You said, "We will certainly carry out our vows to sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven." Well, then fulfill your vows! Carry them out!'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:26 - But listen to what the LORD has to say, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt. The LORD says, 'I hereby swear by my own great name that none of the people of Judah who are living anywhere in Egypt will ever again invoke my name in their oaths! Never again will any of them use it in an oath saying, "As surely as the Lord GOD lives...."
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:30 - I, the LORD, promise that I will hand Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt over to his enemies who are seeking to kill him. I will do that just as surely as I handed King Zedekiah of Judah over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, his enemy who was seeking to kill him.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:2 - "The LORD God of Israel has a message for you, Baruch.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:4 - The LORD told Jeremiah, "Tell Baruch, 'The LORD says, "I am about to tear down what I have built and to uproot what I have planted. I will do this throughout the whole earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:8 - Egypt rises like the Nile, like its streams turbulent at flood stage. Egypt says, 'I will arise and cover the earth. I will destroy cities and the people who inhabit them.'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:1 - The LORD God of Israel who rules over all spoke about Moab. "Sure to be judged is Nebo! Indeed, it will be destroyed! Kiriathaim will suffer disgrace. It will be captured! Its fortress will suffer disgrace. It will be torn down!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:8 - The destroyer will come against every town. Not one town will escape. The towns in the valley will be destroyed. The cities on the high plain will be laid waste. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:40 - For the LORD says, "Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings a nation will swoop down on Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:1 - The LORD spoke about the Ammonites. "Do you think there are not any people of the nation of Israel remaining? Do you think there are not any of them remaining to reinherit their land? Is that why you people who worship the god Milcom have taken possession of the territory of Gad and live in his cities?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:5 - I will bring terror on you from every side," says the Lord GOD who rules over all. "You will be scattered in every direction. No one will gather the fugitives back together.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - For the LORD says, "If even those who did not deserve to drink from the cup of my wrath must drink from it, do you think you will go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but must certainly drink from the cup of my wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - Edom will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns that were around them. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:28 - The LORD spoke about Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon conquered. "Army of Babylon, go and attack Kedar. Lay waste those who live in the eastern desert.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:32 - Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. I will bring disaster against them from every direction," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:30 - So her young men will fall in her city squares. All her soldiers will be destroyed at that time," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - I will destroy Babylonia just like I did Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:61 - Then Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "When you arrive in Babylon, make sure you read aloud all these prophecies.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ב (Bet)
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:36 - to defraud a person in a lawsuit - the Lord does not approve of such things! מ (Mem)
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:37 - Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:1 - He said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak with you."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you see in front of you - eat this scroll - and then go and speak to the house of Israel."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you." So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - He said to me, "Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak my words to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:10 - And he said to me, "Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:22 - The hand of the LORD rested on me there, and he said to me, "Get up, go out to the valley, and I will speak with you there."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:15 - So he said to me, "All right then, I will substitute cow's manure instead of human excrement. You will cook your food over it."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:16 - Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5 - He said to me, "Son of man, look up toward the north." So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - He said to me, "Son of man, do you see what they are doing - the great abominations that the people of Israel are practicing here, to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see greater abominations than these!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:8 - He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:9 - He said to me, "Go in and see the evil abominations they are practicing here."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - He said to me, "Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, 'The LORD does not see us! The LORD has abandoned the land!'"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:13 - He said to me, "You will see them practicing even greater abominations!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:15 - He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:17 - He said to me, "Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:4 - The LORD said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - While I listened, he said to the others, "Go through the city after him and strike people down; do no let your eye pity nor spare anyone!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - He said to them, "Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!" So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - He said to me, "The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say, 'The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see!'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - The LORD said to the man dressed in linen, "Go between the wheelwork underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city." He went as I watched.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:2 - The LORD said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who plot evil and give wicked advice in this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the LORD says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:36 - The LORD said to me: "Son of man, are you willing to pronounce judgment on Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominable deeds!
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:19 - Then the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - "This is what the sovereign LORD says: 'Moab and Seir say, "Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - "Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:2 - This is what the sovereign LORD says: The enemy has spoken against you, saying "Aha!" and, "The ancient heights have become our property!"'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:3 - He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said to him, "Sovereign Lord, you know."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:4 - Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and tell them: 'Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:9 - He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, - prophesy, son of man - and say to the breath: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these corpses so that they may live.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:4 - The man said to me, "Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:45 - He said to me, "This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - Then he measured its length as 35 feet, and its width as 35 feet, before the outer sanctuary. He said to me, "This is the most holy place."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:22 - The altar was of wood, 5¼ feet high, with its length 3½ feet; its corners, its length, and its walls were of wood. He said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:13 - Then he said to me, "The north chambers and the south chambers which face the courtyard are holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings - the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering, because the place is holy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:7 - He said to me: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:18 - Then he said to me: "Son of man, this is what the sovereign LORD says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:2 - The LORD said to me: "This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:5 - The LORD said to me: "Son of man, pay attention, watch closely and listen carefully to everything I tell you concerning all the statutes of the LORD's house and all its laws. Pay attention to the entrances to the temple with all the exits of the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - He said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they will bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out to the outer court to transmit holiness to the people."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:24 - Then he said to me, "These are the houses for boiling, where the ministers of the temple boil the sacrifices of the people."
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:6 - He said to me, "Son of man, have you seen this?" Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:8 - He said to me, "These waters go out toward the eastern region and flow down into the Arabah; when they enter the Dead Sea, where the sea is stagnant, the waters become fresh.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:3 - The king commanded Ashpenaz, who was in charge of his court officials, to choose some of the Israelites who were of royal and noble descent -
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - But he responded to Daniel, "I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:11 - Daniel then spoke to the warden whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:18 - When the time appointed by the king arrived, the overseer of the court officials brought them into Nebuchadnezzar's presence.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:2 - The king issued an order to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men in order to explain his dreams to him. So they came and awaited the king's instructions.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:3 - The king told them, "I have had a dream, and I am anxious to understand the dream."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:5 - The king replied to the wise men, "My decision is firm. If you do not inform me of both the dream and its interpretation, you will be dismembered and your homes reduced to rubble!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:8 - The king replied, "I know for sure that you are attempting to gain time, because you see that my decision is firm.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:12 - Because of this the king got furiously angry and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:20 - saying, "Let the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:24 - Then Daniel went in to see Arioch (whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon). He came and said to him, "Don't destroy the wise men of Babylon! Escort me to the king, and I will disclose the interpretation to him!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:25 - So Arioch quickly ushered Daniel into the king's presence, saying to him, "I have found a man from the captives of Judah who can make known the interpretation to the king."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:26 - The king then asked Daniel (whose name was also Belteshazzar), "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I saw, as well as its interpretation?"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:46 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar bowed down with his face to the ground and paid homage to Daniel. He gave orders to offer sacrifice and incense to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:47 - The king replied to Daniel, "Certainly your God is a God of gods and Lord of kings and revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:13 - Then Nebuchadnezzar in a fit of rage demanded that they bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego before him. So they brought them before the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:14 - Nebuchadnezzar said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you don't serve my gods and that you don't pay homage to the golden statue that I erected?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:19 - Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:20 - He ordered strong soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:24 - Then King Nebuchadnezzar was startled and quickly got up. He said to his ministers, "Wasn't it three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?" They replied to the king, "For sure, O king."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:25 - He answered, "But I see four men, untied and walking around in the midst of the fire! No harm has come to them! And the appearance of the fourth is like that of a god!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:26 - Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire. He called out, "Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the most high God, come out! Come here!" Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego emerged from the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 3:28 - Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, "Praised be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent forth his angel and has rescued his servants who trusted in him, ignoring the edict of the king and giving up their bodies rather than serve or pay homage to any god other than their God!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:14 - He called out loudly as follows: 'Chop down the tree and lop off its branches! Strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit! Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:19 - Then Daniel (whose name is also Belteshazzar) was upset for a brief time; his thoughts were alarming him. The king said, "Belteshazzar, don't let the dream and its interpretation alarm you." But Belteshazzar replied, "Sir, if only the dream were for your enemies and its interpretation applied to your adversaries!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:23 - As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him' -
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 4:30 - The king uttered these words: "Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:2 - While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels - the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem - so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:7 - The king called out loudly to summon the astrologers, wise men, and diviners. The king proclaimed to the wise men of Babylon that anyone who could read this inscription and disclose its interpretation would be clothed in purple and have a golden collar placed on his neck and be third ruler in the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:10 - Due to the noise caused by the king and his nobles, the queen mother then entered the banquet room. She said, "O king, live forever! Don't be alarmed! Don't be shaken!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:13 - So Daniel was brought in before the king. The king said to Daniel, "Are you that Daniel who is one of the captives of Judah, whom my father the king brought from Judah?
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:17 - But Daniel replied to the king, "Keep your gifts, and give your rewards to someone else! However, I will read the writing for the king and make known its interpretation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 5:29 - Then, on Belshazzar's orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:12 - So they approached the king and said to him, "Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?" The king replied, "That is correct, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:16 - So the king gave the order, and Daniel was brought and thrown into a den of lions. The king consoled Daniel by saying, "Your God whom you continually serve will rescue you!"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:21 - Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever!
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:23 - Then the king was delighted and gave an order to haul Daniel up from the den. So Daniel was hauled up out of the den. He had no injury of any kind, because he had trusted in his God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:24 - The king gave another order, and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the lions' den - they, their children, and their wives. They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 7:23 - "This is what he told me: 'The fourth beast means that there will be a fourth kingdom on earth that will differ from all the other kingdoms. It will devour all the earth and will trample and crush it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:13 - Then I heard a holy one speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, "To what period of time does the vision pertain - this vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the destructive act of rebellion and the giving over of both the sanctuary and army to be trampled?"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:14 - He said to me, "To 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be put right again."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:16 - Then I heard a human voice coming from between the banks of the Ulai. It called out, "Gabriel, enable this person to understand the vision."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:17 - So he approached the place where I was standing. As he came, I felt terrified and fell flat on the ground. Then he said to me, "Understand, son of man, that the vision pertains to the time of the end."
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:19 - Then he said, "I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:22 - He spoke with me, instructing me as follows: "Daniel, I have now come to impart understanding to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:11 - He said to me, "Daniel, you are of great value. Understand the words that I am about to speak to you. So stand up, for I have now been sent to you." When he said this to me, I stood up shaking.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:12 - Then he said to me, "Don't be afraid, Daniel, for from the very first day you applied your mind to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come in response to your words.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20 - He said, "Do you know why I have come to you? Now I am about to return to engage in battle with the prince of Persia. When I go, the prince of Greece is coming.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:6 - One said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, "When will the end of these wondrous events occur?"
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:9 - He said, "Go, Daniel. For these matters are closed and sealed until the time of the end.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:2 - When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, he said to him, "Go marry a prostitute who will bear illegitimate children conceived through prostitution, because the nation continually commits spiritual prostitution by turning away from the LORD."
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:4 - Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Name him 'Jezreel,' because in a little while I will punish the dynasty of Jehu on account of the bloodshed in the valley of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:6 - She conceived again and gave birth to a daughter. Then the LORD said to him, "Name her 'No Pity' (Lo-Ruhamah) because I will no longer have pity on the nation of Israel. For I will certainly not forgive their guilt.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 1:9 - Then the LORD said: "Name him 'Not My People' (Lo-Ammi), because you are not my people and I am not your God."
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:5 - For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, "I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - I will destroy her vines and fig trees, about which she said, "These are my wages for prostitution that my lovers gave to me!" I will turn her cultivated vines and fig trees into an uncultivated thicket, so that wild animals will devour them.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 3:1 - The LORD said to me, "Go, show love to your wife again, even though she loves another man and continually commits adultery. Likewise, the LORD loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love to offer raisin cakes to idols."
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:8 - Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich! I have become wealthy! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful."
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:19 - The LORD responded to his people, "Look! I am about to restore your grain as well as fresh wine and olive oil. You will be fully satisfied. I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:32 - It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the LORD has promised; the remnant will be those whom the LORD will call.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:2 - Amos said: "The LORD comes roaring out of Zion; from Jerusalem he comes bellowing! The shepherds' pastures wilt; the summit of Carmel withers."
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:3 - This is what the LORD says: "Because Damascus has committed three crimes - make that four! - I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped through Gilead like threshing sledges with iron teeth.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17 - In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst," says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:8 - The LORD said to me, "What do you see, Amos?" I said, "Tin." The sovereign One then said, "Look, I am about to place tin among my people Israel. I will no longer overlook their sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:12 - Amaziah then said to Amos, "Leave, you visionary! Run away to the land of Judah! Earn your living and prophesy there!
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:14 - Amos replied to Amaziah, "I was not a prophet by profession. No, I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 7:15 - Then the LORD took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, 'Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!'
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 8:2 - He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the LORD said to me, "The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:1 - I saw the sovereign One standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the tops of the support pillars, so the thresholds shake! Knock them down on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the survivors with the sword. No one will be able to run away; no one will be able to escape.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:6 - The ship's captain approached him and said, "What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:7 - The sailors said to one another, "Come on, let's cast lots to find out whose fault it is that this disaster has overtaken us." So they cast lots, and Jonah was singled out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:9 - He said to them, "I am a Hebrew! And I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land."
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:12 - He said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down, because I know it's my fault you are in this severe storm."
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 2:2 - and said, "I called out to the LORD from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 3:4 - When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:2 - He prayed to the LORD and said, "Oh, LORD, this is just what I thought would happen when I was in my own country. This is what I tried to prevent by attempting to escape to Tarshish! - because I knew that you are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy, and one who relents concerning threatened judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:4 - The LORD said, "Are you really so very angry?"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:8 - When the sun began to shine, God sent a hot east wind. So the sun beat down on Jonah's head, and he grew faint. So he despaired of life, and said, "I would rather die than live!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:9 - God said to Jonah, "Are you really so very angry about the little plant?" And he said, "I am as angry as I could possibly be!"
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - The LORD said, "You were upset about this little plant, something for which you have not worked nor did you do anything to make it grow. It grew up overnight and died the next day.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:1 - Listen to what the LORD says: "Get up! Defend yourself before the mountains! Present your case before the hills!"
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:2 - The LORD responded: "Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets, so the one who announces it may read it easily.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:8 - Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,' says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:13 - Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the LORD's word to the people: "I am with you!" says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - Then Haggai asked, "If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - Then Haggai responded, "'The people of this nation are unclean in my sight,' says the LORD. 'And so is all their effort; everything they offer is also unclean.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:9 - Then I asked one nearby, "What are these, sir?" The angelic messenger who replied to me said, "I will show you what these are."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:10 - Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, "These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk about on the earth."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:12 - The angel of the LORD then asked, "LORD who rules over all, how long before you have compassion on Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah which you have been so angry with for these seventy years?"
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:14 - Turning to me, the messenger then said, "Cry out that the LORD who rules over all says, 'I am very much moved for Jerusalem and for Zion.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:17 - Speak up again with the message of the LORD who rules over all: 'My cities will once more overflow with prosperity, and once more the LORD will comfort Zion and validate his choice of Jerusalem.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:19 - So I asked the angelic messenger who spoke with me, "What are these?" He replied, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - I asked, "What are these going to do?" He answered, "These horns are the ones that have scattered Judah so that there is no one to be seen. But the blacksmiths have come to terrify Judah's enemies and cut off the horns of the nations that have thrust themselves against the land of Judah in order to scatter its people."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:2 - I asked, "Where are you going?" He replied, "To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:4 - and said to him, "Hurry, speak to this young man as follows: 'Jerusalem will no longer be enclosed by walls because of the multitude of people and animals there.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:2 - The LORD said to Satan, "May the LORD rebuke you, Satan! May the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Isn't this man like a burning stick snatched from the fire?"
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:4 - The angel spoke up to those standing all around, "Remove his filthy clothes." Then he said to Joshua, "I have freely forgiven your iniquity and will dress you in fine clothing."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:2 - He asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a menorah of pure gold with a receptacle at the top and seven lamps, with fourteen pipes going to the lamps.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:5 - He replied, "Don't you know what these are?" So I responded, "No, sir."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:6 - Therefore he told me, "These signify the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by strength and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says the LORD who rules over all."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:13 - He replied, "Don't you know what these are?" And I said, "No, sir."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:14 - So he said, "These are the two anointed ones who stand by the Lord of the whole earth."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - Someone asked me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - The speaker went on to say, "This is a curse traveling across the whole earth. For example, according to the curse whoever steals will be removed from the community; or on the other hand (according to the curse) whoever swears falsely will suffer the same fate."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:5 - After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said, "Look, see what is leaving."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:6 - I asked, "What is it?" And he replied, "It is a basket for measuring grain that is moving away from here." Moreover, he said, "This is their 'eye' throughout all the earth."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:8 - He then said, "This woman represents wickedness," and he pushed her down into the basket and placed the lead cover on top.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:11 - He replied, "To build a temple for her in the land of Babylonia. When it is finished, she will be placed there in her own residence."
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:5 - The messenger replied, "These are the four spirits of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:7 - All these strong ones are scattering; they have sought permission to go and walk about over the earth." The Lord had said, "Go! Walk about over the earth!" So they are doing so.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:13 - "'It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,' the LORD LORD WHO RULES OVER ALL had said.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - The LORD then said to me, "Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!" So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:15 - Again the LORD said to me, "Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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